Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020)

Re:Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) by fallinditch on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:32AM (#42042456)

Robert Crumb was interviewed for a BBC Radio 3 program where he played some records from his collection and talked about them.

One song was particularly fascinating: a primitive attempt at the new fangled sound called 'jazz' by a French country musette band from the early 20th C.

Crumb explained that when early American jazz bands went to Paris in the 1910s, the new sounds caused a sensation when they performed in the up-market venues. So the country bands were aware of the new style of jazz but most people had never actually heard any and had to play what they imagined jazz to be, mostly based off verbal descriptions. I remember this record as a crazy sound, but brilliantly entertaining.

Unfortunately I can't point you to the song or the interview, but if anyone else can please reply :-0

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Re:Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) by kencausey on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:31PM (#42043900)

I got as far as finding this: https://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2011/01/crumb-and-blues.html

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Re:Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) by nimbs on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:32PM (#42043907)

Is this the program?

R. Crumb's Sweet Shellac - Early French Jazz Before Django: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHsqAK_kJ2o

You can find track list from here: https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/71710-r-crumbs-sweet...

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Re:Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) by fallinditch on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:50PM (#42044143)

Yes, this is what I was trying to remember, thanks for the links!

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Re:Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) by Daub on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:09AM (#42048976)

> So the country bands were aware of the new style of jazz but most people had never actually heard any and had to play what they imagined jazz to be, mostly based off verbal descriptions.

This I find fascinating. Misunderstandings (i.e. partial or third hand accounts) of ‘exotic’ art forms have played a vital part in the development of western art: Picasso ‘misunderstood’ African art to produce Cubism. William Blake ‘misunderstood’ Michelangelo to produce his etchings. Van Gogh ‘misunderstood’ Japanese prints to produce his paintings.

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Re:Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) by ahazred8ta on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:39AM (#42058136)

And Klezmer ragtime exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=por54UliDmE

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