Cheers, Clive
I love "Farewell Blues" ever since I first heard it when I was about 15. The solos generate a real punch and the rough and tumble of the rhythm section is irresistible. Venuti's violin seems to disappear out of range it goes so high at one point and Jack Teagarden steals the show in my opinion. I think these records are remarkable as all the musicians were scuffling for work at the time yet there is a defiant reluctance to pander to the current commercial pressures as the record market in 1933 was so different from what it has been even five years earlier.
Listening to this track again I am struck just how influenced it is by the then popular Casa Loma orchestra and the riff at the end could easily have been something conjured up by their arranger Gene Gifford. The riff seems familiar .
I love "Farewell Blues" ever since I first heard it when I was about 15. The solos generate a real punch and the rough and tumble of the rhythm section is irresistible. Venuti's violin seems to disappear out of range it goes so high at one point and Jack Teagarden steals the show in my opinion. I think these records are remarkable as all the musicians were scuffling for work at the time yet there is a defiant reluctance to pander to the current commercial pressures as the record market in 1933 was so different from what it has been even five years earlier.
Listening to this track again I am struck just how influenced it is by the then popular Casa Loma orchestra and the riff at the end could easily have been something conjured up by their arranger Gene Gifford. The riff seems familiar .
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