Pip R. Lagenta | Tiger Rag (Instrumental) Ukulele @PipRLagenta | Uploaded December 2012 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
The FoOP JAZZ TRIO play Tiger Rag. "Tiger Rag" is a jazz standard with complex origins. So, I will just quote Wikipedia:
"'Tiger Rag' is a jazz standard, originally recorded and copyrighted by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917. It is one of the most recorded jazz compositions of all time. The tune was first recorded on 17 August 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band for Aeolian-Vocalion Records (the band did not use the Jazz spelling until later in 1917) and released as B1206, 'Tiger Rag One-Step Written and Played by Original Dixieland Jass Band', backed with 'Ostrich Walk'. The Aeolian Vocalion sides did not sell well, as they were recorded in a vertical format becoming obsolete at the time which could not be played successfully on most contemporary phonographs. Their second recording of the tune on 25 March 1918 for Victor Records, 18472-B, backed with 'Skeleton Jangle' as the A side, on the other hand, was a smash national hit and established the tune as a jazz standard. The song was copyrighted, published, and credited to bandmembers Nick LaRocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields in 1917. Harry DaCosta later wrote lyrics to the instrumental when it became a million- seller and a no. 1 national hit for The Mills Brothers in 1931. 'But even before the first recording, several musicians had achieved prominence as leading jazz performers, and several numbers of what was to become the standard repertoire had already been developed. 'Tiger Rag' and 'Oh Didn't He Ramble' were played long before the first jazz recording, and the names of Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson, Papa Celestin, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Kid Ory, and Papa Laine were already well known to the jazz community.' Other New Orleans, Louisiana musicians claimed, however, that the tune or at least portions of it had been a standard in the city even before. Some others even copyrighted the same melody or close variations on it under their own names, including Ray Lopez under the title 'Weary Weasel' and Johnny DeDroit under the title 'Number Two Blues'. A number of veterans of Papa Jack Laine's band said the tune had been known in New Orleans as 'Number Two' long before the Dixieland Jass Band copyrighted it. In one interview, Papa Jack Laine said that the actual composer of the number was Achille Baquet. Punch Miller claimed to have originated the cornet & trombone breaks with Jack Carey, and that from Carey's characteristic growl many locals called the tune 'Play Jack Carey'. Jelly Roll Morton also claimed to have written the tune, basing part of it on his jazzed up version of an old French quadrille."
Got all that? 'Cuz there's gonna be a test.
Lyrics are not used in this performance. The FoOP JAZZ TRIO features Steven Strauss on electric concert ukulele, Ed Johnson on wash-tub bass ("gutbucket"), and Cynthia Wilson on the drums. This music was recorded on December 1, 2012.
Videographed and sound engineered (such as it is) by Pip R. Lagenta. The video and audio are edited by Pip R. Lagenta.
The FoOP JAZZ TRIO, or Friends of Old Puppy, play at the Nabolom Bakery in Berkeley, every Saturday morning (starting at 10 a.m.).
☹ + ♫ = ☺
Bicephalous Old Tomato Woman
-- Recorded LIVE! --
Berkeley, California
The FoOP JAZZ TRIO play Tiger Rag. "Tiger Rag" is a jazz standard with complex origins. So, I will just quote Wikipedia:
"'Tiger Rag' is a jazz standard, originally recorded and copyrighted by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917. It is one of the most recorded jazz compositions of all time. The tune was first recorded on 17 August 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band for Aeolian-Vocalion Records (the band did not use the Jazz spelling until later in 1917) and released as B1206, 'Tiger Rag One-Step Written and Played by Original Dixieland Jass Band', backed with 'Ostrich Walk'. The Aeolian Vocalion sides did not sell well, as they were recorded in a vertical format becoming obsolete at the time which could not be played successfully on most contemporary phonographs. Their second recording of the tune on 25 March 1918 for Victor Records, 18472-B, backed with 'Skeleton Jangle' as the A side, on the other hand, was a smash national hit and established the tune as a jazz standard. The song was copyrighted, published, and credited to bandmembers Nick LaRocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields in 1917. Harry DaCosta later wrote lyrics to the instrumental when it became a million- seller and a no. 1 national hit for The Mills Brothers in 1931. 'But even before the first recording, several musicians had achieved prominence as leading jazz performers, and several numbers of what was to become the standard repertoire had already been developed. 'Tiger Rag' and 'Oh Didn't He Ramble' were played long before the first jazz recording, and the names of Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Bunk Johnson, Papa Celestin, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Kid Ory, and Papa Laine were already well known to the jazz community.' Other New Orleans, Louisiana musicians claimed, however, that the tune or at least portions of it had been a standard in the city even before. Some others even copyrighted the same melody or close variations on it under their own names, including Ray Lopez under the title 'Weary Weasel' and Johnny DeDroit under the title 'Number Two Blues'. A number of veterans of Papa Jack Laine's band said the tune had been known in New Orleans as 'Number Two' long before the Dixieland Jass Band copyrighted it. In one interview, Papa Jack Laine said that the actual composer of the number was Achille Baquet. Punch Miller claimed to have originated the cornet & trombone breaks with Jack Carey, and that from Carey's characteristic growl many locals called the tune 'Play Jack Carey'. Jelly Roll Morton also claimed to have written the tune, basing part of it on his jazzed up version of an old French quadrille."
Got all that? 'Cuz there's gonna be a test.
Lyrics are not used in this performance. The FoOP JAZZ TRIO features Steven Strauss on electric concert ukulele, Ed Johnson on wash-tub bass ("gutbucket"), and Cynthia Wilson on the drums. This music was recorded on December 1, 2012.
Videographed and sound engineered (such as it is) by Pip R. Lagenta. The video and audio are edited by Pip R. Lagenta.
The FoOP JAZZ TRIO, or Friends of Old Puppy, play at the Nabolom Bakery in Berkeley, every Saturday morning (starting at 10 a.m.).
☹ + ♫ = ☺
Bicephalous Old Tomato Woman
-- Recorded LIVE! --
Berkeley, California
