[Dixielandjazz] Update on Eralyjas 2004 Fall Jazz Festival contact information!

[JazzAdvocate]

Bob,

I'm sorry to hear the hotel doesn't know anything, try the following:

Wayne Vetter

Earlyjas Festival Director

1-330-867-8846 or

1-330-678-5903

Ronald L Gable
Jazz Advocate, & Writer
211 South Main Street
Suite 980
Dayton, Ohio 45402
(937) 371-4953
jazzadvocate at kbcom.net
www.jazzadvocate.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>
To: "JazzAdvocate" <jazzadvocate at kbcom.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Yama Yama Man


> Hi George! Nice report on Howard Miyata! A wonderful musician! Do you know
> who is hiring the bands for the Eralyjas festival for 3004? I called the
> number you listed below, and got hold of a hotel/motel in Strongsville,
and
> the people there knew nothing about the festival...hm-m-m!
> Thanks,
> Bob Romans
> Cell Block Seven
> Jazz Band
> 1617 Lakeshore Dr.,
> Lodi, California,
> 95242
> Phone...209-368-3255
> Cell...209-747-1148
> Fax...209-368-3255
> WebPages
> cellblockseven2002.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JazzAdvocate" <jazzadvocate at kbcom.net>
> To: "George Thurmond" <gmthur at delrio.com>; "DJML"
> <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Yama Yama Man
>
>
> > I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on Kinch and Turk but I do
concur
> > with George on Howard Miyata who brought the house down at the Eralyjas
> 2003
> > Fall Jazz Festival in Strongsville, Ohio last September.  I liked
Howard's
> > rendition very much and said so in an article I wrote for a local Dayton
> > paper, which is posted (along with some pictures) on our website at:
> > http://www.jazzadvocate.com/special_picture_page.htm.
> >
> >
> >
> > BTW any interested in the Eralyjas 2004 Fall Jazz Festival can call
(440)
> > 238-8800 for details.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for supporting jazz,
> >
> >
> >
> > Ronald L Gable
> > Jazz Advocate, & Writer
> > 211 South Main Street
> > Suite 980
> > Dayton, Ohio 45402
> > (937) 371-4953
> > jazzadvocate at kbcom.net
> > www.jazzadvocate.com
> > **********************************************
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "George Thurmond" <gmthur at delrio.com>
> > To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:19 AM
> > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Yama Yama Man
> >
> >
> > >         I'm the "someone" who posted that "Yama Yama Man" is an old
New
> > > Orleans lullabye - an assertion somewhat disputed by Mike No. 1
> (Durham).
> > > Then Mike No. 2 (Rev. Logsdon) says Don Kinch and the Murphy band's
> > > rendition tops Howard Miyata and the High Sierra's version.  Let me
> answer
> > > each Mike in turn.
> > >
> > >         Kinch and Turk's recording in the Music for Losers album
(Verve
> > > 1013) is beautiful, and played as intended - slowly and, yes, sweetly.
> > But
> > > no lyrics are sung.  Miyata and High Sierra play it also in the same
> > meter,
> > > but Miyata's showmanship comes through on the lyrics, and that what, I
> > > repeat, brings down the house.
> > >
> > >         The album notes to Turk's Verve album refer to the song as "a
> New
> > > Orleans lullabye (sic), written by Carl Hoschna and Collin Davis
around
> > > World War I".  The lyrics are scary, and get the kids to bed hiding
> under
> > > the covers where they are safe from YYMan, a sort of New Orleans
> sandman.
> > >
> > > George (standing on good authority) Thurmond