[Dixielandjazz] Jamie Cullum or Rob McCallum?

[Robert S. Ringwald]

I sat in at the Cajun in NY a month or so ago.  The bass player was a young 
girl from Australia named Debbie Kennedy.  She is Nigel Kennedy's sister.

--BR




 His sister
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <heu at bart.nl>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jamie Cullum or Rob McCallum?


> Thank, Cees . . .
>
> Nigel Kennedy was indeed the name of the violinist who performed with the 
> Sacramento Symphony some years ago.
>
> I'll have to google him and see what he's been up to these days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill "Fiddler" Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
>>From: "Cees van den Heuvel" <heu at bart.nl>
>>To: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>, 
>><dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jamie Cullum or Rob McCallum?
>>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:51:31 +0200
>>
>>I think his name is Nigel Kennedy.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Cees van den Heuvel
>>http://www.revivaljassband.nl
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>>To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>>Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:32 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jamie Cullum or Rob McCallum?
>>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Steve B wrote:
>>>
>>>>Some, like Sacramento, or the Baltimore Symphony are
>>>>trying different approaches to reverse that trend.
>>>
>>>Does anyone recall the name of the young "hippy" concert violinist?  I 
>>>can't remember his name, but he came to Sacramento (where I live) and 
>>>performed with the Sacramento Symphony (r.i.p.) about 10 or so years ago. 
>>>I believe he played one of the Mozart string concertos.
>>>
>>>The program notes indicated that he had not only performed with many of 
>>>the county's leading symphony orchestras, he has also performed with the 
>>>Beatles!
>>>
>>>He was dressed in a pretty outlandish fashion, the overall look derived 
>>>from the "punk" fashion of the day and, as I recall, his hair was dyed 
>>>some bright color and styled in a rather extreme "do." He was not dressed 
>>>anything like anyone else on the stage all of whom wore the standard 
>>>tuxedo with black bow tie . . . I believe the conductor, Carter Nice, got 
>>>to wear a tux with tails and a white bow tie.
>>>
>>>The logic of this escaped me, because the people he was impressing with 
>>>his appearance were already at the concert. The people he wanted to 
>>>"reach" and attract to the symphony (the young and the hip) were all 
>>>somewhere else.
>>>
>>>They should have ADVERTISED the event and splashed his "hipness" all over 
>>>the entertainment sections of all the local media and maybe even  put up 
>>>a billboard with his picture printed in vivid colors.
>>>
>>>As I recall, he was a competent violinist (perhaps lacking a bit of the 
>>>virtuosity of Zucherman or Perlman) and he gave an enjoyable concert.
>>>
>>>For an encore he played a Beatles tune (don't remember which one) and 
>>>sprinked it with lots of quotes from classical melodies. I enjoyed that 
>>>part a lot because he did it with a flair and a smile and we all knew 
>>>what he was playing.
>>>
>>>Damn . . . can't remember his name - anyone know who that might have 
>>>been?
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Bill Gunter
>>>jazzboard at hotmail.com
>>>
>>>
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