Swing it!
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 3:23 am
I played in Gypsy jazz bands for years and have played Sweet Sue a thousand times, but I'd never heard that whistle version. Very cool.Mr.Gumby wrote:The Hoagy C. item comes up every few years but I'll bite this time:
Sweet Sue - Django Reinhardt, Les Lieber (whistle) and others
Les Lieber died a few months ago, aged 106. He played the jazz whistle to the end.
From what I've read, kwela and marabi music evolved in the segregated culture of South Africa under similar (Jim Crow ~ Apartheid) conditions as to those that gave birth to jazz in the US. Wikipedia indicates that marabi did indeed have links to jazz and that kwela evolved from marabi. And, naturally, music being what it is, it could not be contained in the ghettos of its birth, and eventually put SA on the musical map.PB+J wrote:Have to wonder how much of the Quela stuff came from american jazz.