{"id":1864,"date":"2009-12-07T02:26:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torec.tomajazz.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2021-08-20T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T19:27:20","slug":"tomajazz-recomienda-un-tema-back-water-blues-de-bessie-smith-y-james-p-johnson-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomajazz.com\/web\/tomajazz-recomienda-un-tema-back-water-blues-de-bessie-smith-y-james-p-johnson-1927\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomajazz recomienda\u2026 un tema: \u201cBack Water Blues\u00bb de Bessie Smith y James P. Johnson (1927)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u00abBack Water Blues\u00bb, escrita por la propia Bessie Smith, refleja las desdichas de la gente pobre en las tierras bajas de la ribera del Mississippi cuando \u00e9ste se desborda.\u00a0Se grab\u00f3 el 17 de febrero de 1927 junto con \u00abPreachin’ The Blues\u00bb, en la primera de las seis sesiones (aparte del cortometraje St. Louis Blues<\/em>) en las que James P. Johnson acompa\u00f1\u00f3 a Bessie Smith, si hacemos caso a la discograf\u00eda de James P. Johnson recopilada por Robert Hilber (puesto que Brian Rust pone en duda la participaci\u00f3n de James P. Johnson en tres de ellas).<\/p>\n

De la docena de pianistas que acompa\u00f1aron a Bessie Smith a lo largo de\u00a0sus diez a\u00f1os de carrera discogr\u00e1fica, James P. Johnson es, sin lugar a dudas, el\u00a0m\u00e1s dotado t\u00e9cnicamente. En los dos compases iniciales de cada l\u00ednea, Johnson\u00a0aporta un poderoso y vibrante acompa\u00f1amiento r\u00edtmico con la mano izquierda (con matices distintos en cada una de las stanzas<\/em>), a la poderosa y expresiva voz de Bessie, adem\u00e1s de breves comentarios y obbligati<\/em> con la mano derecha. Pero es en los dos compases instrumentales de cada l\u00ednea donde la diferencia entre James P. y el resto de pianistas\u00a0se hace m\u00e1s palpable: sus breves flashes est\u00e1n repletos de bellas\u00a0ideas musicales,\u00a0distintas pero a la vez\u00a0complementarias de las aportadas en el acompa\u00f1amiento (si bien esto \u00faltimo ha sido discutido por reputados autores como Gunther Schuller).<\/p>\n

Back water blues done caused me to pack my things and go; back water blues done caused me to pack my things and go; ‘cause my house fell down, and I can’t live there no mo’. <\/em><\/p>\n

Mmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmm, I can’t move no more; Mmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmm, I can’t move no more; there ain’t no place for a poor old girl to go.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tomajazz: \u00a9 Adolphus van Tenzing, 2009<\/p>\n

Disponible en Bessie Smith – The Complete Recordings – Volume 5<\/em> (Frog DGF 44)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tomajazz recomienda\u2026 un tema: \u201cBack Water Blues\u00bb de Bessie Smith y James P. 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