I wrote music for piano-rolls and I played piano at the Spectacles in NY when I was young.
When the motion pictures got sound I first wrote music for Nickelodeons, a kind of a peep box you looked into and saw... WHAT?
This above is what you cold find at better places !
Yes, there were beautiful ladies dancing, and stepping and doing other small "naughty" things too, but who cares? I loved music, and I wanted my music to be more live!
But you also need money too, for living and stayng alive...
The theaters in NY were MANY, all kinds of artists , some of them were just Vaudeville, almost Circuslike sometimes ... Yes, not at all good, and of course there were these Burlesque too.
My friends at the music companies at Tin Pan Alley also had a lot of friends, that needed money for living. But my place wasn´t in a band!
I was a composer and wanted my music to be heard, in big places!
I did some Scandals but, who doesn´t at young age?
The new music in NY was called ragtime, and I knew that the blacks played something called The Blues..or something "jazzy" . Most of the hip cats called it Jazz, cause the rythm was swinging, changing and wiggling in a special way... Interesting and funny it seemed to me anyway. And those cats could really improvise on their instruments. I liked that style!
-Mmm let me think, if I combine the blues with my old folkmusic called Klezmer and make something out of it? Maybe it could work...`?
- Hmm ...In fact there are pretty similar pentatonic scales... but I want to add rythm !
The Modern rythm !
One day this guy called me and wanted some music for his band.. and I was flattered..
He became a very good friend of mine and he gave me a lot of advices.
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