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| Basin Street |
Here's a catchy, riffy, easy tune for your band to try, if you don't already have it in your repertoire,
It's Basin Street Stomp (quite different from Basin Street Blues). It has a simple 32-bar structure (a - a - b - a) and a few built-in 'bluesy' notes to give it a special flavour.
According to one source, it was written by Nick La Rocca and Howard Chandler Franks in 1914. But this is surely incorrect.
I have had an email from Bill Edwards that says:
According to one source, it was written by Nick La Rocca and Howard Chandler Franks in 1914. The 1914 may be in question, but the copyright for the piece in 1954, which was posthumous for La Rocca at the very least, is not. I've been trying, by request, to rectify the LoC records on this with other information on the piece, but for the moment, there is an official record that LaRocca and Franks were involved.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zjYhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22howard+chandler+franks%22&source=bl&ots=Z8p7TE0ppS&sig=ACfU3U0o4tNlr51krBRAAlokWk7xS4CQNw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjh8D5qoThAhVtuVkKHbNNAUQQ6AEwCXoECBEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22howard%20chandler%20franks%22&f=false
Also, correspondent Franklin Wade has kindly sent me information that the tune appeared first in 1951 on a recording made by The Basin Street Six, where the liner notes stated that it was 'one of their own originals'. The Basin Street Six were Pete Fountain (only 21 years old at the time, clarinet), George Girard (trumpet), Joe Rotis (trombone), Roy Zimmerman (piano), Charlie Duke (drums) and Bunny Frank (bass).
All somewhat confusing. But this is roughly how the tune sounds - to me.
It's Basin Street Stomp (quite different from Basin Street Blues). It has a simple 32-bar structure (a - a - b - a) and a few built-in 'bluesy' notes to give it a special flavour.
According to one source, it was written by Nick La Rocca and Howard Chandler Franks in 1914. But this is surely incorrect.
I have had an email from Bill Edwards that says:
According to one source, it was written by Nick La Rocca and Howard Chandler Franks in 1914. The 1914 may be in question, but the copyright for the piece in 1954, which was posthumous for La Rocca at the very least, is not. I've been trying, by request, to rectify the LoC records on this with other information on the piece, but for the moment, there is an official record that LaRocca and Franks were involved.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zjYhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=%22howard+chandler+franks%22&source=bl&ots=Z8p7TE0ppS&sig=ACfU3U0o4tNlr51krBRAAlokWk7xS4CQNw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjjh8D5qoThAhVtuVkKHbNNAUQQ6AEwCXoECBEQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22howard%20chandler%20franks%22&f=false
Also, correspondent Franklin Wade has kindly sent me information that the tune appeared first in 1951 on a recording made by The Basin Street Six, where the liner notes stated that it was 'one of their own originals'. The Basin Street Six were Pete Fountain (only 21 years old at the time, clarinet), George Girard (trumpet), Joe Rotis (trombone), Roy Zimmerman (piano), Charlie Duke (drums) and Bunny Frank (bass).
All somewhat confusing. But this is roughly how the tune sounds - to me.
