Blindfold Test | jazzcollector.com https://jazzcollector.com For those who love jazz Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:11:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 175772384 From The Archives: The Duke As a Hillbilly???? https://jazzcollector.com/questions/from-the-archives-the-duke-as-a-hillbilly/ https://jazzcollector.com/questions/from-the-archives-the-duke-as-a-hillbilly/#respond Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:10:47 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=1247 When I was researching that “trick” quiz question on the first Leonard Feather Blindfold Test, I came upon the Downbeat Special 20th Anniversary Issue from [...]

The post From The Archives: The Duke As a Hillbilly???? first appeared on jazzcollector.com.]]> When I was researching that “trick” quiz question on the first Leonard Feather Blindfold Test, I came upon the Downbeat Special 20th Anniversary Issue from June 30, 1954. In addition to talking about the Blindfold Tests, Feather had some great stories and quotes. Here’s a comment from Jack Teagarden on Duke Ellington: “I never did like anything Ellington ever did. He never had a band all in tune, always has a bad tone and a bad blend. I’d just as soon listen to a hillbilly on a jukebox.”

This is what Feather had to say about the first Mary Lou Williams Blindfold test from 1946:

“Mary Lou set the pace perfectly; her denunciations of Jelly Roll, Bunk, et al, her praise for Woody and other modernists gave pause to the die-hard scribes and who, because of their respect for her as a musician, gave her comments serious consideration.” 

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