(Dixieland, traditional) George Lewis & his Ragtime Band - Hot Creole Jazz - 1953, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Lewis began as a man who taught himself an instrument for the pleasure of it, who did play with various bands, but stayed in New Orleans and on the same general technical level of his formative years. For what he wanted to play-parade and dance music with self-taught musicians like himself who also did not aspire to and might not have had the capacity for greater musical sophistication-Lewis had the command of the horn he needed.
What he and the other men he played with had was a vitally direct emotional identification with their music. It was, first of all, music they had grown up with and that was so unique to their city and to the older members of their families that in itself it added to their sense of identity. They were not just musicians; they were New Orleans musicians.
This almost proprietary feeling was intensified as other New Orleans men left home, developed their music in other directions, and left men like Lewis-so Lewis felt-one of the last continuers of the tradition.
There was, therefore, even less reason for Lewis to change, to "perfect" his technique, to "modernize" his band's approach. If these musicians were, as they felt, keeping the line alive, it would have been almost suicidal to change.
I'm not sure how much of this was consciously in Lewis' mind through the years, but on the basis of conversations with him in New York, I'd say a great deal of it was. Lewis is a gentle man, but also a stubborn one in so far as his music is concerned. He has great pride in his tradition and in the fact that after decades of telling his story in New Orleans, he has been able to reach so many people of so many different backgrounds-without changing the story.
This album brings back into print-one of the most stimulating sessions of contemporary New Orleans music on record. Originally released on a 10" Jazzman LP (LP 331), Ice Cream, Down by the Riverside, Burgundy Street, When the Saints Go Marching In, Doctor Jazz and A Closer Walk with Thee were recorded in 1953.
What emerges from these recordings-and that original Jazzman album I still feel, as I wrote in Down Beat in 1955, is one of the most emotionally energizing of all sessions in that vein-is an increasingly rare experience. Lewis and his men generate and communicate a remarkably unselfconscious-almost ingenuous-abandon in their playing. They are, to be sure, technically limited to begin with, but there is no faulting the wholeness, intensity and honesty of their emotions. The result is that the solos, though rough-edged, are a complete extension of the man into the horn; and the collective ensembles, while raggedy from a music critic's viewpoint, are totally of a piece in so far as these musicians' feelings about playing together are concerned. This is an experience, therefore, in music making on a basis level. It is played by men conscious of their history but also determined to be wholly themselves in their expression of it and in it. And they are most themselves when they play what they feel, whether those notes are in the tempered scale or not. This then, is the end of a line.

01 - Panama.flac
02 - Lou-Easy-Am-I-A.flac
03 - When the Saints Go Marching In.flac
04 - Doctor Jazz.flac
05 - Ice Cream.flac
06 - Just A Closer Walk With Thee.flac
07 - Down by the Riverside.flac
08 - Burgundy Street Blues.flac
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Copyright (c) 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
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