It feels like home, this Jazz.
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I edited and cut this video, then published it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOdMfU3S0Zc . Thanks to the Austrian ORF I could copy an old VHS to DVD in best quality, possible - on my machine. This is the Barrelhouse Jazzband located in Vienna in the 1960s of the 20th century: Heinz Feix (b), Peter Hoffmann (p), Otti Kitzler (t), Horsti Bichler (dr), Alfons Wuerzl (cl) and Norbert Vas (tb) are the musicians. They perform three pieces of Jazz, which were very popular in the 1920s: 1 is called Where Am I?, the second is the Flat Foot Floogie, the third on the Shimmy Sha Wabble.
Vienna - Barrelhouse Jazzband
This kind of Jazz focuses on entertainment, it was played in the cafés and bars, but also on the streets in the Deep South. The Barrelhouse Jazzband Vienna was honored for best classical Jazzband in the sixties, as were some of the musicians: Horsti Bichler, the drummer, and my daddy, Otti Kitzler playing trumpet and English horn. The BHBJ refers to the Chicago Style and Dixieland. They published several CDs, recently, and earlier a single and the famous Pferdeplatte.
Here I found something about the Flat Foot Floogie at Ethnopoetics including the lyrics. Jerome Rothenberg writes about lyrics:
"While the initial focus of ethnopoetics was on orality and performance, the discourse turned as well to the visible aspects of language — writing & inscription — both as a persistent contemporary concern & as an often unacknowledged kingpin of a revitalized & expanded ethnopoetics. In an age of cybernetic breakthroughs, the experimental tradition of modernist poetry & art has expanded our sense of language in all its forms, the written along with the oral. In doing this, it should also have sensitized us to the existence of a range of visual/verbal traditions and practices, not only in literate cultures but in those also that we have named "non"- or "pre"-literate — extending the meaning of literacy beyond a system of (phonetic) letters to the fact of writing itself." (Rothenberg: http://www.ubu.com/ethno/visuals.html).
Popularizing the Shimmy in America tells its story. The shimmy was a new kind of dancing dating back to 1910, and "One of the most talked-about dances of the time was `the shimmy`."(Bryant, Rebecca 2002 at JStor: American Music). This site explains a little bit more, where this kind of dance comes from: http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3shimy.htm: The shimmy goes back to "Haitan Voodoo" with shales of hips and shoulders. In this text one might stumble over the expression of sheet music, which is self-explaining: It denotes music, which was, for the first time, written on paper. Blues and Jazz were before delivered orally, or should I say early? There is another piece of music relating to the ability of dance, it is called I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, here are the lyrics and sound, Satchmo played it, too.
The best way to learn about Jazz is to listen to the music: Listen to the sounds and try to get the lyrics. There are lots of internet sites about Jazz. Here are related links:
All About Jazz: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/
Big Band Database: http://nfo.net/
Jazzology: http://www.jazzology.com/jazzology_records.php
Chicago Jazz Archive: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/
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This is a rip copy of an old VHS video I recorded with my digicam. It shows the Barrelhouse Jazzband, Vienna, including my daddy:
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Otti Kitzler, mein Papa, ist im Dezember 1978 seinem Krebsleiden erlegen. Wie sein Bruder Kitzler, Erich und seine Mutter berichteten, trank er seit Jahren keinen Alkohol, weil er, wie er auch mir sagte, als jugendlicher Mann "zu sehr ueber die Stränge schlug". Seine Aerzte diagnostizierten, daß das Rauchen den Krebs foerderte, und bestaetigten, daß Papa ohne Alkohol lebte.
Die Auflistung der Bands mit denen Papa musizierte ist auch unvollstaendig: Da waren nicht nur die Barrelhouse Jazzband und Hot Ottis Band, sondern auch die Swing Serenaders und, wie mir Irmela Rettenbacher bestaetigte, das Art Orchestra. Irmela Rettenbacher ist die Schwester der begabten Rettenbacher - Brueder, hier ein witziges Foto: Horstl Bichler, "da nackate" & "da gelbe", Otti Kitzler
Ein Photo von Papas Begraebnis: ? ?, Bernie Gottlieb, Horsti Bichler, Alfons Wuerzl, Franz Luttenberger, Walter Terharen
Ich halte nicht viel von diesem und aehnlichem Negativgerede ueber Papa und behalte ihn so in Erinnerung, wie ich ihn kennen gelernt hatte: Immer zu einem Spaß aufgelegt und alles auf der Trompete spielen koennend.Ich erinnere auch Papa´s permanente Migraene, die so manches verhinderte: Onkel Vicki behandelte nicht nur unser aller Zaehne, er versuchte auch Papa´s und meiner (schon als Kind ausgepraegten) Migraene "Herr" zu werden. Papa lag tagelang im Bett und trug seine Augen verbunden, da jeder Ton, jedes Licht Schmerzen bereitete. Er nahm zahlreiche Medikamente, auch gegen seine Allgerien ein, sensibler Mensch, wie er war. Folge der Migraene: Uebelkeit, dauerndes Erbrechen und Depressionen. Ein Teufelskreis, denn jede Beschaeftigung oder Arbeit war von drohenden Migraeneanfaellen ueberschattet. Seine letzten Lebensjahre verbrachte er bei seiner Mutter, die auf ihre Art versuchte ihn zu pflegen. Sein Bruder Erich war damals sein einziger Gespraechspartner, er wollte zu niemandem mehr Kontakt pflegen. Er fuehlte sich unverstanden, hintergangen und benutzt, wollte ausser seinen drei Kindern niemanden mehr empfangen. Er warnte uns vor Menschen, die Gewalt gebrauchten und ausser "Blackmail" nichts von sich gaben.
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Camaron
I found some nice buleria artists here.
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