New Orleans Jazz - News and Views - Sammy Penn

SAMMY PENN: Morgan City, Louisiana, born September 15, 1902. Florida, died September 18, 1969.

Let's start a little 'different this time: for me, the greatest drummer Baby Dodds in New Orleans, to my great joy, Sammy Penn and Cie Frazier. But Sammy had a great second string to his bow. He has sung with the same sentence as the legendary Fats Domino, and his big cigar and had a huge smile master entertainer.

Sammy's first job was with the band in 1921 by Jake Johnson, thenChris Kelly's Brass Band, Kid Rena Brass Band and the legendary Eureka Brass Band. He was the pillar of the band Kid Thomas for a quarter century.

You have to understand that entertainment was the name of the game. With Sammy Penn and Joe "Twat" Butler Kid Thomas Valentine had a band show. Singers, celebrities and Thomas with his famous bag of tricks is not surprising that this band of survivors in New Orleans and then toured worldwide to represent the birthplace of jazz.

In along interview with my friend Tom Stagg in his marvelous Record Shop, "" Good Rockin ', Sammy Penn, drums describes as "ultra-base" a bass drum, a snare drum, tom toms and a cymbal attached to the bass drum. As Tom points out, drove the band relentlessly and with an astonishing complexity of rhythmic sounds. This kit was easy but the rhythm is everything else!

This is Tom's memory of the last weeks of his life. "Sammy came news of the appointment of a physician withWho had very high blood pressure and heart murmurs. Sammy played at Preservation Hall in the night and after a further meeting with the band Kid Thomas with their equipment loaded onto a bus outside the hall of St. Peters-road and off with Sammy for a ride through Georgia to Florida. After only one concert, came by bus to city hall with only the driver and road manager of the body of Sammy Penn.

In conversation with Barry Martyn, high prices, the great drummer Sammy Penn to New Orleans.Sammy playing 4.4 on the case and not cut more family time drummer in New Orleans. George Lewis, preferably, 4.4 sound, and Joe Watkins, the way he plays, but without the explosive accents and complex rhythms of Sammy Penn. Barry has had the good fortune to sit in the Kid Thomas Band, and found that he could not even hear his band and had to adapt and style that fit around the band.

So was the drummer Sammy Penn Kid Thomas and his Algiers Stompers, and spent most ofhis life playing with this band. Barry Martyn, said: "If Joe and Sammy James died, the band would never be the same"

hear him at his best, you should be on "Kid Thomas Band Jazz Valentine Creole AMCD listen to American Music 49 and" Kid Thomas and his Algiers Stompers "at Riverside OJCCD 1833-2. my great joy is actually seeing the man in action a DVD of the band in December, produced by Big Bill Bissonnette (possibly still available from him on his Jazz CrusadeWebsite - jazzcrusade.com).

Sammy Penn was one and we are happy to play the discs. In Australia, the great Peter Clohesy him and in Europe, both Keith Minter, Emile Martyn and Chris Marchant signs have influenced heard of this "original" was.

My next book is an interview with Les-Muscutt excellent banjo player from the United Kingdom, a great impression on the jazz scene in New Orleans did. Because of health problems has moved recently, and I'm surefind his story interesting! PS to say a last minute call from Barry Martyn, who is his latest video on-AMVD4 American Music Kid Thomas, Sammy Penn feature, plus Kid Howard Band and many other good things!

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