http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1oajFwui-Q Billie Holiday’s 1933 recording of Riffin’ the Scotch. BG plays a couple bars of the reel in the intro.
The King of Swing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55gTGe6RRiY Go to 5:00 to hear some Irish pipes. Broadcast 1990.
Bloody Hell, so he does! Lovely swing too.
I wonder why clarinet didn’t catch on with NYC Trad musicians?
It was the electric guitar of its time during the 1920s-1940s at the
same time as that golden age of Coleman, Morrison and Co.
Great find… so many possibilities.
Kevin that’s brilliant. Not sure I would have spotted that myself! I will listen more closely to those intros…
