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Creole Trombone 30: He and Robert Hall [...] messed around with instruments stored at Valentine’s house.at mess about, v.
Creole Trombone 30: He and Robert Hall [...] messed around with instruments stored at Valentine’s house. (con. c.1915) Creole Trombone 100: Like the rest of the band, Dodds was barrelhouse: a gutbucket, non-reading musician who played by ear.at barrelhouse, adj.
(con. c.1910) Creole Trombone 27: The Pickwick and the Onward [brass bands] regularly squared off on Sundays at bucking contests where the winner would be determined by audience acclaim.at buck, v.2
Creole Trombone ix: Ian, Katie, and Ellen McCusker, 22, 17, 15, have endured seemingly endless treks through graveyards, archives, and libraries while I dogged the Ory story.at dog, v.1
Creole Trombone 75: Ory’s was strictly a faking band, while Frank’s men read music.at fake, v.1
(con. c.1915) Creole Trombone 100: Dodds was barrelhouse: a gutbucket, non-reading musician who played by ear.at gutbucket, adj.1
(con. 1910s) Creole Trombone 84: From a personnel standpoint, Ory had the horses, and his New Orleans bands would benefit from the immense talents of future jazz stars.at horse, n.
(con. 1910s) Creole Trombone 84: Bassist George ‘Pops’ Foster said, ‘His [Ory’s] band could play a waltz and make it hot.’ ‘Hot’ is a term often applied to early New Orleans bands that played an improvisational gut-bucket style.at hot, adj.
Creole Trombone 31: ‘They played for the elite and had the town sewed up’.at sewed up, adj.
(ref. to 1901) Creole Trombone 54: He then unbuttoned the neck of his sweat drenched white shirt to reveal his red firemen’s underwear. This was hot stuff in 1901 and Bolden never missed an opportunity to ‘stir the pot,’ musically or otherwise.at stir the pot (v.) under stir, v.
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