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Title: Soul Train, Jazz Train, Funk Train! Post by: Bmblbzzz on April 03, 2019, 08:57:15 Long before Soul Train ever became an American TV music show, there was the jazz train – and this one had wheels. It was used by jazz saxophonist Curtis Ousley.
Quote To try to buy himself more hours in the day, he had impulsively bought Cannonball Adderley's customised railway carriage with the hope of saving wasted time at airports by travelling to distant venues hitched to a Pennsylvania Railroad train. But the train was old and needed constant repairs, and the time he saved on journeys was eaten up with endless phone calls to railway engineers in the Bronx. Infamously King Curtis had once waved away James Brown's claims to be 'the hardest working man in show business' by saying dismissively, 'He can't be that busy if he has time to boast about it.' Harlem 69: The Future of Soul, Stuart CosgroveNot only did he save time through not having to hang around at airports and travel between them and his gigs, he could also rehearse on the train; difficult to do on a plane – and dreadful acoustics! It seems touring by train was not uncommon for musicians in America at the time: the book is the last part of a trilogy, the first of which (Detroit 67) mentions Motown tours of 'the Chitling circuit' by train. (Chitlings are boiled pigs' intestines, favoured food of poor Black Americans in the South at the time.) But how many had a customised carriage? Unfortunately Mr Google isn't favouring me with any information or photos of the Cannonbury-Curtis customised train, but there is a Funky Train: https://youtu.be/9AAE771MHHw The books, by the way, are interesting but the first two at least are not very well written, or rather I think not well edited: lots of repetition as if assembled from shorter pieces. But interesting from a musical and social perspective. And 'the wrong side of the tracks' seems to have been a literal description in segregated Memphis. Title: Re: Soul Train, Jazz Train, Funk Train! Post by: Lee on April 03, 2019, 09:01:42 Mr Google - He was the lesser-known trumpet player, right?
Title: Re: Soul Train, Jazz Train, Funk Train! Post by: eightonedee on April 03, 2019, 09:41:45 ...friend of the famous trombone player, Wicky P Dear
Title: Re: Soul Train, Jazz Train, Funk Train! Post by: Bmblbzzz on April 03, 2019, 10:47:30 They both played with Bing...
Title: Re: Soul Train, Jazz Train, Funk Train! Post by: Red Squirrel on April 04, 2019, 10:26:49 (Chitlings are boiled pigs' intestines, favoured food of poor Black Americans in the South at the time.) ...and by Somerset folk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eXJhJsddx8 You can buy it soft or hard By the pound or by the yard Chitterling's the stuff to give the troops. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |