
ENGLISH ( Naar het Nederlands-Vlaamse deel met een jazzbassist, Spike Hughes, die honderd jaar geleden geboren werd en in de vier jaar dat hij echt actief speelde met zijn platen razend populair was in ons land.)
"FATS WALLER" in .............TIN PAN ALLEY CATS: A CENSORED ELEVEN CARTOON
Last week I was surprised by a film fragment, while searching for a "Fats Waller on film" fragment. To be honest - I hadn't expect to find something "new", as the fragments, in which Fats Waller participates on film are limited to four shorts and some film fragments. That's why I was surprised to find this fragment of a 1943 Warner Bros' cartoon titled Tin Pan Alley Cats.


and brushes it, with his typically raspy voice, aside: "Wine women an' song? What's de matter wid dat?". He goes inside the club and enjoys what's inside, but the music gets him and the whipped up rhythms bring him in "Jazz Wackyland"- "the world of evil." When he awakes ........ he understands that this isn't the place to be for a decent "cat", runs away from the club and becomes a member of the gospel choir.

released on US DVDs. It is a fact that the cartoons are filled with ingrained prejudices and discrimination about African-Americans and jazz music, so if you watch these cartoons try to view it as historical documents; as documents published during the 1940s, when this was a rather "accepted" way ( in white men's society) to think about blacks and its music jazz. Of course, I'm happy times changed now, but the music is pretty good, so I love to share this rare cartoon with you. The other ten cartoons that were banned too are ( I also included Tin Pan Alley Cats for completeness):
"All This and Rabbit Stew"-Avery/1941
"Angel Puss"-Jones/1944
"Clean Pastures"-Freleng/1937
"Coal Black & De Sebben Dwarfs"-Clampett/1943
"Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears"-Freleng/1944
"Hittin' The Trail to Hallelujah Land"- 1931
"The Isle Of Pingo Pongo"-Avery/ 1938
"Jungle Jitters"-Freleng/ 1938
"Sunday Go To Meetin' Time"-Freleng/1936
"Tin Pan Alley Cats"-Clampett/1943
"Uncle Tom's Bungalow"-Avery/1937

Hans Koert - keepswinging@live.nl
MASTER CLASS IN CHORO
This week Joergen Larsen posted a great contribution on the Choro-Music blog, titled Masterclass about the great bandolim player Jacob do Bandolim and how this men inspired hunderds to play this Choro music during the 1960s. Enjoy this contribution by Joergen Larsen -published in the only regular Choro blog in English this part of the world and its surroundings. - keepswinging@live.nl
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Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl Nederlands-Vlaams ( To the English section with Fats Waller in Tin Pan Alley Cats; a Censored Eleven cartoon )

Op 19 oktober 1908, honderd jaar geleden, werd in Londen Patrick Cairns Hughes geboren, bijgenaamd Spike. Hij leerde zichzelf de bas bespelen en begon zijn (korte) muzikale carriere ( die maar een viertal jaren zou duren) in de Night Watchmen. Zijn eerste opnamen onder eigen naam maakte hij met de Decca-Dents.

Even genieten ...............
Spike Hughes overleed in Londen februari 1987. De tekening is gemaakt door Boy Ten Hove in 1938: een Nederlandse tekenaar, die honderden karikaturen maakte van jazzmusici te gebruiken in kranten en tijdschriften. Deze tekeningen zijn verzameld en beschreven door Ate Van Delden in het boek Boy ten Hove's Caricatures (Drawings of Jazz Musicians 1935-1940) (2006)
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
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