American Tango 1933: Hal Kemp Orch. - La Cumparsita
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Hal Kemp & His Orchestra - La Cumparsita (The Masquerade) Tango (Rodriguez), Brunswick 1933 (USA)
NOTE: Hal KEMP (b. 1905 in Marion, Alabama - d. 1940 in Madera, California, USA). Am,erican jazz alto saxophonist & clarinetist, dance bandleader, composer and arranger.
As a teen, Kemp played in movie theatres, before forming his first band, 'The Merry Makers', at high school. Took up alto sax during studies at the University of North Carolina and then played with various campus bands.. In 1924 he formed the Carolina Club Orchestra. The band recorded for English Columbia and Perfect/Pathé Records and toured Europe in the summer of 1924 under the sponsorship of popular bandleader Paul Specht. Kemp returned to UNC in 1925 and put together a new edition of the Carolina Club Orchestra, featuring classmates and future stars John Scott Trotter, Saxie Dowell, and Skinnay Ennis. Hal's band was based in New York City, and included Trotter, Dowell, and Ennis, and a few years later trumpeters Bunny Berigan and Jack Purvis joined the group. The sound was 1920s collegiate jazz. Kemp once again toured Europe in the summer of 1930. This band recorded regularly for Brunswick, English Duophone, Okeh and Melotone Records noted as popular “sweet style” band famous for its saxes which played very complex extremely difficult passages, muted trumpets and vocals by Skinnay Ennis. Influential American songwriter Johnny Mercer referred to Hal Kemp's group as 'the typewriter band', because of the distinctive clipped phrasing of its trumpets. It was invented by arranger John Scott Trotter, when singer Skinnay Ennis had difficulty sustaining notes; Trotter came up with the idea of filling in these gaps with muted trumpets playing staccato triplets. All that gave the band a unique sound. Hal's band was one of the most popular bands in the 1930s, and was often featured performing on the radio, in shows such as "The Lucky Strike Magic Carpet Show" or "Penzoil Parade of Melodies" (1933). The band also appeared in numerous motion-picture short subjects, and were featured in the 1938 RKO film, "Radio City Revels". I Dec 1940, Hal Kemp died two days after the collision he had with a truck, while driving from LA to San Francisco. Starting in 1922, Hal Kemp enjoyed membership and was highly honored in a Masonic lodge DeMolay.
I have posted many Hal Kemp's recordings on this channel so far, but his recording in the tango repertoire is very rare. It delights with its precision and captivating arrangement no less than dozens of his "hot" charlestons or foxtrots.
Very unusual to hear Hal Kemp performing a tango, but he's doing a great job. His hot, crisp and precise interpretation is most remarkable!
Dziękuję za tak gorące tango ,bo śnieżek w Małopolsce posypuje!!!
My friend and I got up and danced! Gracias.
Great! Will you do it again if I upload polka? :-))
@@240252 Of course, I love to dance!
Wonderful Tango!!
thanks :-))
Delightful
Certain tangos I really like, and this is one of them. It's a nice surprise from a Hal Kemp outfit that produced a lot of great recordings. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this music with us! :-)))
For sure, it's one of few such recordings made by this wonderful hot-dance orchestra. Side B is also an Argentinian tango.
It's good to be back - Grzegorz. You know the saying - "There is time to leave - then there is time to come back". Anyway - the winter is gone so the spring is more manageable in my big apartment which I have been renting in a mini-mansion owned as a rental by my cousin. "La Cumparsita" was at first composed as a military march by an unknown Uruguayan composer - Matos Rodriguez - however - Roberto Firpo - a Tango master, composer, arranger and a famous Tango band leader of 1920's - set it to Tango beat and the rest was history.
The Argentinian version of ballroom Tango has a lot of complicated lower legs moves which are hard to execute to look good otherwise the partners can easily look as if they are kicking each other. That's way - I prefer the American Tango which is easier to dance and looks more attractive - in my opinion. This version is a bit slow to dance - but it sounds really good. Thanks for the Tango and we are sending you a big Tango hug from my sunny but unusually for the spring - cold and windy today - hilly town - away from crowded and crimey - Chicago!
like it in this slow the rhythm so much
Super excellent with very good interesting photos
Thank you :-)
Another fine version of this classic. As I wrote before, for some reason this tune was a must for every child in Israel who was learning to play the accordion. The images of the tango dancing couples are beautiful, including the one of the not-so-perfectly-chic couple at 2:08 :)
I looked at their photo once again 2:08 and indeed, these two may not seem to be very pretty, yet the setting of their knees & feet shows how well they're doing one of tango-argentino figures. I may be not right but this one looks like sometjhing called "volcada". It's a pity Lana has not been here with us for some time, for she as Queen of Tango in this forum would give us a proper hint about that. It's a funny story about poor Israeli kids who have to play La Cumparsita on and on duriung their accordion lessons. I never played that instrument nor ever visited such accordion lesson, however most likely they play in Poland something like Mozart's Turkish March... I think I've heard Polish children play it at shows more than once.
A lovely eternal tune
...and Hal Kemp plays it magnificent!
This is extremely funny to me. I was born accustomed to tango sounds that didn't appeal to me and later I adopted jazz music to be in my interest. Here Kemp keeps the tango features and expand them into an American fox trot dance band, mainly the clarinets passage and trumpet took the violin passage. This tango is full of drama like other European...Jewish, Gypsies, hungarian folk songs are. You know it better than I, living in the heart of Europe. It was composed by Uruguayan Gerardo Mattos Rodriguez. I liked it!
Believe me or not, but when uploading this piece I was thinking all time about you: what a surprise this Kemp's tango-recording wil be for you! And I was right! :-) Yes, that Uruguayan genius Rodriguez composed a really immortal melody, full of some dark mystery. It's always a pleasure for me to listen to it in various renditions yet every time I feel a thrill down my spine.
Prezioso!!!!Grazie e buona Primavera, per ora piovosa!Un caro saluto, Lidia
Lydia, ti saluto anche in queste belle giornate di primavera. Era solo Natale, e tra una settimana sarà Pasqua! Il tempo è pazzo, si precipita come un matto. Cosa sarà con noi? :-))
Tempi duri in ogni senso, non ci resta che sperare....avanti i giovani!!!!Approfitto per farti i miei più cari auguri di una serena Pasqua.Con simpatia, Lidia
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Lo stesso vale per te, cara Lidia. Non perdiamo la speranza. Gesù Risorto è sempre la nostra forza e speranza :-))
…....remember Cesar Romero and Cisco's tango!!!.....
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Certainly! It's one of those great tango-scenes in history of cinema :-) Like Anthony Dexter in "Valentino" ua-cam.com/video/oFcraniRJH0/v-deo.html or Al Pacino in "Scent of a Woman" ...ua-cam.com/video/D2y3UOZ5MM4/v-deo.html and several others... :-))
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