Re: bopalula

[tom ball <havaball@xxxxxxx>]

Andrew wrote:
All I'm saying is that Walter used some bebop phrases on some tracks,
even if he wasn't a bebop artist. Is that too hard for you to accept,
or would you like to have a laugh at my opinion with another gag
reference to a secret session with Byrd and Dizzie?

To which I can add the following quote from Wynton Marsalis:
"Everyone in the fifties was playing the blues like, 
'Be-boop-diddly-popa-DO.'  But then Little Walter came on the scene 
going, 'Be-boop-diddly-popa-DA.' And that's why there has never been 
any real blues since Walter died in the sixties." --Wynton Marsalis.

- -Tom Ball
Santa Babs