A Look At Jazz From a South Carolina Perspective

[SlideRuleEra]

An article in the local newspaper talked about the Charleston connection to the world of jazz. It mentioned a jazz website; of course I immediately though of you folks...
so here it is

http://www.charlestonjazz.net/home.php

http://www.SlideRuleEra.net

 

[JAE]

...but there's no mention of any engineers playing the tunes!

 

[BigH]

SRE - thanks for the link.

Not many know that Richmond Indiana had a strong link to early jazz - Richmond is a city on the east boundary of the state in the middle on US40/I-70. One wonders why and one of the premiere jazz experts in Toronto referred to it as a subburb of Chicago - but they are nearly 200 miles apart. The reason that Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Satchel Armstrong and others recorded there is from the faact that the Starr Piano company was headquartered there. They would bring down the jazz pioneers from Chicago to record. I really got to understand this by buying some old French released LPs that were available and they mention the city of recording. My folks grew up around the Richmond area and now live near New Castle - so it is quite in the fore of "my" America.

 

[Mccoy]

Charleston, the cradle of dixieland?
Sure they look like having a consolidated tradition.

I browsed the musician's gallery, didn't know any of'em though, with the notable exception of Alphionse Mouzon, the percussionist .

By the way, at last got to hear latest Mccoy's CD, "Illuminations".

Superlative good taste, great arrangements and spanning a number of styles.

From the bossa-with-mexican-bridge "Angelina" to the New Orleans march with piano & drums duet.

Anyone of you guys touched the instrument lately?
My problem was that I had listened to too much top-notch jazz, so what I was playing sounded downright terrible to me. Perfectionism can kill you.

 

[SlideRuleEra]

JAE - Perhaps no engineers performing, but you know all about the problems created for engineers by that rhythmic music...

http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/pubs/ctus/ctu22e.pdf

or an example closer to home, the football stadium at my alma mater, USC (University of South Carolina)

The stadium's west upper deck was added in 1972, but it was the addition of the east upper deck in 1982 that eventually created some controversy. During a 1983 game against Southern California, as many fans celebrated the play of the Gamecocks, the east upper deck began to sway, leading the university to discuss safety measures. Giant shock absorbers were consequently installed under the east upper deck, and head football coach Joe Morrison was subsequently quoted as saying, "If it ain't swaying, we ain't playing." However, during the 1988 season, many spectators reported seeing a ripple effect across the east upper deck when the marching band played the song "Louie Louie." The university indicated that the sway or ripple was safe. To this day the east upper deck sways whenever large groups of fans jump up and down.

taken from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams-Brice_Stadium

http://www.SlideRuleEra.net

 

[BigH]

Why would anything not Sway or Yaw or . . . when Louie Louie is playing!!!!

McCoy - I'll have to find that latest Tyner CD - he is boss!

 

[Mccoy]

About 10 years ago I read an article which captured my attention. It was on an international ICSMFE proceedings (Dehli or Rio de Janeiro), about elastic waves generated by jumping fans during a rock concert at a stadium.
I do not remember if they jumped on the soil or on decks, but, as remarked by the SRE example, the problem appears to be real and with a not-so-rare occurrence.