Bennie Moten（Bennie Moten）

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人們記得Bennie Moten往往是因?yàn)樨愇鞑艄芟?a class="dict" href="/azsoft/co2751097.html">樂隊(duì)（Count Basie），因?yàn)樗O(shè)立的坎薩斯市管弦樂隊(duì)（Moten's Kansas City Orchestra）是貝西伯爵管弦樂隊(duì)的前身。但Moten的成就遠(yuǎn)勝于此。他是一個(gè)很好的鋼琴演奏者，演奏以拉格泰姆（ragtime）風(fēng)格為主。他領(lǐng)導(dǎo)著他的那支管弦樂隊(duì)，使它成為二十年代當(dāng)?shù)刈顑?yōu)秀的樂隊(duì)，也成為坎薩斯市爵士樂演奏的典范。

實(shí)際上Moten的樂隊(duì)是強(qiáng)勢(shì)的，以至于最后它吞并了許多競(jìng)爭(zhēng)者的樂隊(duì)，包括Walter Page的藍(lán)魔（Blue Devils）樂隊(duì)。藍(lán)魔樂隊(duì)的許多成員，最后成為了Moten的樂隊(duì)成員，嗯，包括William Basie（就是后來設(shè)立Count Basie樂隊(duì)的那個(gè)鋼琴手）。

Moten的樂隊(duì)原來是一個(gè)六重奏的組合，組建于1922年。1923年，樂隊(duì)推出了他們的首張唱片。1923到1925年間，Moten最受歡迎的是那首“south”。1926到1932年間，Moten的管弦樂隊(duì)為了Victor公司而錄制了幾張唱片。雖然Moten的管弦樂隊(duì)最初的成員中，并沒有很出名的人，但后來加入他樂隊(duì)的人中不乏優(yōu)秀的音樂家：比如偶爾在樂隊(duì)中演奏一下手風(fēng)琴的Moten的哥哥BUCHER Moten；比如薩克斯Harlan Leonard， Jack Washington；比如喇叭手和吉他手Eddie Durham；比如歌手Jimmy Rushing；比如喇叭手“熱嘴唇”oran Page（Hot Lip Page）和1929年之后加入的鋼琴手Count Basie。Count的演奏風(fēng)格深受Moten的影響。從那時(shí)開始，樂隊(duì)唱片中的鋼琴部分，都是由Count演奏的，Moten只是在俱樂部的現(xiàn)場(chǎng)表演中彈奏一兩段。

Bennie Moten最著名的一張專輯，也是他的最后一張專輯。從1932年12月13日的錄制的這10首歌中，我們驚訝的發(fā)現(xiàn)它們和Count Basie五年后的一張專輯非常的類似。

除了Hot Lips Page，Durham， Washington和Basie，那時(shí)的樂隊(duì)還包括了Ben Webster，Eddie Barefield和Walter Page，其中的一個(gè)亮點(diǎn)是初次登場(chǎng)的“Moten Swing?！?/p>

1935年Moten在扁桃體切除手術(shù)中不幸逝世。Buster Moten暫時(shí)接管了Moten的樂隊(duì)，但樂隊(duì)中許多頂尖的成員，終于離開了樂隊(duì)，跟隨像Lester Young這樣的優(yōu)秀音樂家一起加入了Count Basie的貝西伯爵管弦樂隊(duì)。

Scott Yanow文

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Bennie Moten is today best-remembered as the leader of a band that partly became the nucelus of the original Count Basie Orchestra, but Moten deserves better. He was a fine ragtime-oriented pianist who led the top territory band of the 1920s, an orchestra that really set the standard for Kansas City jazz. In fact it was so dominant that Moten was able to swallow up some of his competitors' groups including Walter Page's Blue Devils, most of whom eventually became members of Moten's big band. Moten 出生 his group (originally a sextet) in 1922 and the following year they made their first recordings. Among Moten's 1923-25 sides for Okeh was the original version of his greatest hit "South." During 1926-32 Moten's Orchestra recorded for Victor and, although none of his original musicians became famous, the later additions included his brother Buster on occasional jazz accordion, Harlan Leonard, Jack Washington, Eddie Durham, Jimmy Rushing, Hot Lips Page and (starting in 1929) Count Basie. So impressed was Moten by Moten's playing that Count assumed the piano chair for recordings from that point on (although in clubs Moten would generally play a feature or two). The most famous Bennie Moten recording session was also his last, ten songs cut on December 13, 1932 that find the ensemble strongly resembling Basie's five years later. In addition to Hot Lips Page, Durham, Washington and Basie, the band at that point also starred Ben Webster, Eddie Barefield and Walter Page and one of the highpoints was the debut of "Moten Swing."

Tragically Bennie Moten die in 1935 from a botched tonsillectomy operation. Buster Moten briefly took over the band, but many of its top members (along with some important additions like Lester Young) eventually gravitated towards Count Basie. — Scott Yanow