Summertime by Eli Newberger and Jimmy Mazzy

Here s an excerpt from the New York Times Review of the Mazzy, Newberger CD Shake It Down, by jazz critic John S. Wilson: The banjo and tuba duets by Jimmy Mazzy and Eli Newberger on Shake It Down (Stomp Off 1109) have a precedent of sorts. According to Tex Wyndham, an authority on early jazz who wrote the liner notes for the album, it is found in recordings made in the years before World War II by black rural blues singers who often played guitar or banjo and were accompanied by string bass or tuba. Both Mr. Mazzy and Mr. Newberger are members of bands that record for Stomp Off Mr. Newberger plays tuba with the Black Eagle Jazz Band and Mr. Mazzy is banjoist and singer with the Yankee Rhythm Kings. Mr. Newberger is also a pediatrician who has taught at Harvard Medical School and whose scholarly writings have appeared in both the Journal of Jazz Studies and Pediatric Clinics of North America. Their duets, played at a concert for the Adult