Gitbox jazz7/26/2023 ![]() Ockham Collective is a charitable trust promoting and fostering the arts and creativity in the local community - Freida Margolis is being supported by Ockham Collective to present a series of New Zealand musical artists throughout 2021. This will be a special, intimate Sunday evening at Freida Margolis. With Nigel Gavin, Kim Halliday, Russell Hughes, Rob Mita, Sonia Wilson, Doug Robertson, Sam Loveridge and Bodi Hermans. Honoring the beautiful character of acoustic guitar, Gitbox Rebellion’s exuberant blend of jazz, rock, folk and classical will have you in sonic raptures.Īn acclaimed multi-member performance unit of uncanny ability and chemistry, Gitbox Rebellion make their guitars sound atmospheric, chaotic and orchestral – and better than you could ever imagine.ĭescribed as “Igor Stravinsky meets Pete Townshend,” the group’s music – both original tunes and covers – is a joyous collision of worlds, managing to be infectiously moody, upbeat, grungy and intricately textured all at once.Įxtraordinary live, they’ll have you hooked from the first finger pick to the last. He died in 1923.Ockham Collective Presents: Gitbox Rebellion. One of his most-recorded aggregation was the Ossman-Dudley Trio, featuring Audley Dudley on Work to include duets, trios, banjo orchestra. In later years, he moved beyond solo and accompaniment He was internationally famous by the early 1900s, undertaking two concert tours of England in 19. Johnson's Consolidated Talking Machine Company. On that day he recorded several songs for Eldridge Ossman began his long association with Victor He recorded cylinders for the North American Phonograph Company, nearly 70 discs for Berliner, cylinders for Bettini in 18, and 12 7-inch Zonophone discs at the turn ![]() His day until about 1910, when Fred Van Eps superseded him. Ossman was one of the most recorded musicians of According to Allen Koenigsberg's Edison Cylinder discography, Will Lyle made 50 banjo records on Ossman was not the first banjoist to record. He made his first recordings for the Edison company on brown wax cylinder in 1893. He played five-string banjo in classical (guitar) ![]() Ossman was born Sylvester Louis Ossman in Hudson, New York in 1868. Quality: FLAC 24 bit / 44.1 kHz (Tracks) Artist: Gitbox Title: Curveball Released: 2021 Style: Jazz, Contemporary Classical, Acoustic Guitar RAR Size: 940 Mb. In order to defy the bounds of rock convention, Gitbox members worked to acquire a full array of musical weapons - many of the techniques more often associated with classical or jazz music, and sometimes devices. Even the stuffiest classical concert banjoist knew to encore with "Massa's In De Cold, Cold Ground." Betraying the jazz/blues heritage of many of the participants, Gitbox is a Pidgin expression for the steel-string acoustic guitar. The banjo, with its acknowledged black origins, served as a useful symbol of musical Pastoral visions of pre-modern life - simple, uncomplicated and stable, soothed fears of progress and change. A longing for home, sweet home began to be felt in songs and stories of the era. Little farming towns were turning into industrial cities, sometimes virtually overnight.įormerly agrarian people were leaving the southern plantations in droves for northern factory work and prosperity. The late 19th and early 20th century was a time of mechanization, factories, steam power,Īnd railroads. Many people had about the overall good of progress. This nostalgic aspect resonated with the doubts that Why was the banjo relegated thereafter to dixieland and bluegrass, two of the most conservative musical styles ever to arise? Specifically, what were the cultural forces underlying this change of fashion?Įven as the banjo was gaining respectability much to the delight of the banjo manufacturing and music publishing industry, the instrument was still associated with a kind ![]() Sites: gitboxrebellion. Orchestral & atmospheric, composed and chaotic, the music spans and defies the genres of jazz, rock, folk and chamber music. jazz and dance bands) in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Unashamedly analog, Gitbox Rebellion is a 10-piece guitar ensemble, playing original music composed by and for the group, in Auckland, NZ. Nonetheless I titled my presentation "The banjo and guitar in transition: the 1920s and 30s." My aim in this essay is to explain the process by which the banjo largely disappeared from the musical mainstream (i.e. I am certainly no expert on guitars, banjos, or the jazz and dance bands of the 1920s and 1930s. I decided that this group might enjoy something on the banjo and guitar, subjects on which I have some knowledge and some playing ability. I have been a member of CAPS since January of last year, and whenever I can, I attend their meetings at the Centennial College campus. I was asked to put together an hour-long presentation to a group primarily composed of 78 and cylinder record collectors and aficionados and home repairers of wind-up record players from the Edison Home cylinder machine to the sumptuous Victor Victrola "Credenza" model. This is Part 1 of the written version of a talk that I gave at the Canadian Antique Phonograph Society on January 8, 2012. ![]()
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