Blindfold Test .:.23 DISC ONE Answers

[JSngry]

Baby Laurence & Fred Astaire both made albums where they tapped, & Bunny Briggs did it on a number from Ellington's first Sacred Concert.

Might be a good time to put in another plug for the movie "No Maps On My Taps", a documentary featuring Briggs, Sandman Sims, & the incredible Chuck Green. One of the deepest musical/philosophical things I've seen, even though it's about tap-dancing. Lionel Hampton's in it, too.

[mikeweil]

Baby Laurence & Fred Astaire both made albums where they tapped,

Part of that Baby Laurence is on the CD I mentioned - man, he was a master drummer!

[JSngry]

Apparently, John Bubbles made an album for Vee-Jay where he mostly sang. But on one number, anyway, he tapped.

http://ce.bromley.ac.uk/ese/cgi-bin/times/read.cgi

[.:.impossible]

Baby Laurence & Fred Astaire both made albums where they tapped, & Bunny Briggs did it on a number from Ellington's first Sacred Concert.

Might be a good time to put in another plug for the movie "No Maps On My Taps", a documentary featuring Briggs, Sandman Sims, & the incredible Chuck Green. One of the deepest musical/philosophical things I've seen, even though it's about tap-dancing. Lionel Hampton's in it, too.

Wow Daddy Pop! I'd love to see that flick. Never even heard of it, or don't recall anyway. Sounds like a limited circulation thing. I'll have to search on that one. Thank you.

[JSngry]

It was a limited-release theatrical thing, iirc. Bravo aired it once, and I believe it had a VHS release. It's out there, somewhere.

Just let me say this - Chuck Green was to tap-dancing what Lester Young was to music. Yes he was...

[JSngry]

Baby Laurence & Fred Astaire both made albums where they tapped, & Bunny Briggs did it on a number from Ellington's first Sacred Concert.

Might be a good time to put in another plug for the movie "No Maps On My Taps",  a documentary featuring Briggs, Sandman Sims, & the incredible Chuck Green. One of the deepest musical/philosophical things I've seen, even though it's about tap-dancing. Lionel Hampton's in it, too.

Wow Daddy Pop! I'd love to see that flick. Never even heard of it, or don't recall anyway. Sounds like a limited circulation thing. I'll have to search on that one. Thank you.

Uh, Cary...

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...=0entry317105

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Nicely done! Thank you.

[mikeweil]

I have to correct myself as far as that Baby Laurence Lp is concerned: Only side one is included on that Black & Blue CD, and the LP was on Classic Jazz, not Master Jazz.

The other dancers featured on the CD are Jimmy Slyde, Chuck Green, and Bunny Briggs, and was obviously pulled from 3 different LPs from 1974, 1978 and 1979 on the Black and Blue label. All of them are hard to find, I'm afraid, but I would prefer buying the video Jim has located - tap has to be seen! (Although I think that the rhythmic, drumming aspect of tap dancing is vastly underrated!)

[brownie]

I have to correct myself as far as that Baby Laurence Lp is concerned: Only side one is included on that Black & Blue CD, and the LP was on Classic Jazz, not Master Jazz.

The other dancers featured on the CD are Jimmy Slyde, Chuck Green, and Bunny Briggs, and was obviously pulled from 3 different LPs from 1974, 1978 and 1979 on the Black and Blue label. All of them are hard to find, I'm afraid, but I would prefer buying the video Jim has located - tap has to be seen! (Although I think that the rhythmic, drumming aspect of tap dancing is vastly underrated!)

That Baby Laurence (he is also known as Lawrence) is a quite interesting disc. I got the Classics Jazz release mainly because Bobby Jaspar is on side 2. Problem is that Jaspar and the other musicians (Roland Hanna, Arvell Shaw and French drummer Dave Pochonet) are mixed in such a way that they are kept in the background. Laurence is all over the place. A fantastic dancer! Too bad there is no video of this.

Paul Quinichette, Nat Pierce, Skeeter Best, Al Hall and Osie Johnson are in the background on side 1.

I have seen a number of those hoofers but the best still remains Bill Robinson, tapdancing King. I watch any film where he appears just for the all too brief dances where he is featured.