Spasm tape
In early jazz, the Spasm Band was a small musical ensemble, often made up of adolescents, whose instruments consisted primarily of everyday objects or very simple musical instruments: pots, washboards and vats for percussion, kazoos as melodic instruments and jugs ( jugs ) for singing a bass part. Jelly Roll Morton used this name. The first band to appear under this name is the Stale Bread's Spasm Band , known in New Orleans since 1895 , which later also appeared as the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band .
In the 1950s, the term was also used to denote music groups that played a mix of Dixieland , traditional jazz , jugband and skiffle music. The Nihilist Spasm Band , a Canadian noise band, gave itself its name in allusion to this .
literature
- Ekkehard Jost : Spasm Band. In: Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost: Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 , p. 672.