Nice...I appreciate very much so having this and all these conversations with you...I actually did read exactly, almost verbatim what you’ve written here above, I just wanted to try and say it in my own words...
In the bordellos of the Storyville area of New Orleans it’s my understanding if you could play some Jass on the in-house piano, that was all you needed to make a very good hustle, with no band needed. For example, Jelly Roll Morton in his early days before he became a band leader. Years a ago I read a piece on Jelly Roll Morton were legend has it, he coined the term Spanish Tinge.
It seems the call and response shouts and stomps of the early funeral marches had a profound effect in shaping Jass music also with it’s African Spiritual connections.
You know, you got me wondering? By the time Louis Armstrong became a consummate band leader, with him and his band dressed to the nines in tuxes, I dare say in New Orleans, he and his band might have been considered Bourgeois? Now wouldn’t that be something? Indeed...
But....It will be boring for most...