Paul Gelsomine

Trumpets crackle, cornets sing, and trombones slide with a grin while tuba locks a two-beat under snapping drums. Riffs jump, shout choruses build, and solos answer like street calls. The harmony nods to ragtime but the attack is present and bold. It is hot jazz built for a crowded floor, tight, bright, and ready to stomp.

James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five, Clarence Williams’ Blue Five, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Cab Calloway, The Mills Brothers, Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman, Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, Earl Hines, Original Dixieland Jass Band, Coleman Hawkins, Chick Webb, Count Basie

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