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Re: No Swing in the U.K.?

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Subject: Re: No Swing in the U.K.?
From: Raymond Sturge u <stur9630@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:24:54 -0500 (EST)
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If there is any SA brass band that can swing, it has to be the CSB 
(Canadian Staff Band).  NO QUESTIONS ASKED.  As far as I am concerned, 
they are the most versitile with the repitoire that's out there.

Oh yeah, that's just my opinion.

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Gregor Spowart wrote:

> Well, again, i have to disagree....i'm not making any friends on this
> list, but I just don't feel that British Brass Bands can swing, either SA
> bands or otherwise.  I have the Revelation CD, and they are OK at swing,
> as are Desford in the Harry James piece, but they can't touch the
> original.   IMO, the only brass band in Britain that get close to swing is
> the Redbridge Brass, and i've not heard that much of them, but when I
> heard them on the radio, they knew what was going on and did a good job of
> it.  The Chicago Staff are pretty good at it also, but they're not
> British, as you'd probably guessed. :-)
> But still, they weren't as good as the real big bands and jazz bands.
> I think that BB should just stick to their own music (and to an extent
> that includes some of the orchestral transcriptions, but thats another
> thread, although, quite an interesting one....) since that is what they're
> good at.  
> 
> Just my opinion.
> 


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