[Dixielandjazz] new member

[Brian Towers]

Dear Horace,

Welcome to the DJML from an old friend!    Your experience, jazz scholarship
and writing skills will be much appreciated by us all!   I occasionally wade
in, when time permits, to stir things up and provoke debate.  I will have to
watch my Ps and Qs even more from now on, now that I know you are looking
in.

I will be visiting the UK (on my own)  in early August and you may get a
surprise knock on your door, if i take a trip West.
All is well with us.  The band has just completed 15 years of regular
Saturday matinees at our "C'est what?" jazz club.  A trip to the FQ Festival
in NOLA last month was much enjoyed, and Jan and I played with a good
International pick-up band.  Here in T.O. my band is preparing for two
concerts at the Distillery Jazz Festival this weekend and our show will be
called "100 Years of Waller"  - celebrating his birthday this coming May
21st!   It is likely there will be a CD coming from it.

Once again, it is great to have you on-line and to see you in Cyber-space at
last!  I am sure you will enjoy much pleasure from it but you will suffer
from time to time, when the  "viri" gets into your "hard drive" and your PC
goes "down"    (Better start getting used to all the newjargon!)

Warm regards to Edwina and yourself, from both of us.
Brian & Jan Towers,
Hot Five Jazzmakers
Toronto.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Horace Harris" <harris at horacem.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] new member


> Dear members, Am I allowed to say hello? I joined today, having become a
computerist since last Easter Sunday, when my daughter delivered to me her
computer, having just upgraded. She thought it was time I entered the 21st
century. Up till now I have been satisfied with typing my jazz articles on
my Brother word processor. I became interested in jazz in 1940, published my
first article on jazz in the "Melody Maker" in 1946, and have been writing
on and off more or less ever since, latterly in "The American Rag", the
Sydney "Quarterly Rag", the London "Just Jazz" and above all, the quarterly
"IAJRC Journal". All this is solely to establish my credentials. For some
years I have read Bill Gunter's excellent articles in "The American rag" on
the subject of this mailing list, without any understanding of what it is
really about. I now hope to dive in the deep end. By the way, I have seen
and heard Bill with Cell Block 7 at the San Diego Jazz Festival and can
confirm that he is a superb washboardist and jazz singer. End of plug. I
look forward to being an active member. Horace Meunier Harris.
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