[Dixielandjazz] Sitting In

[Barrie Walter Marshall]

I mentioned this as part of another post a little while ago.

One Sunday lunch at my band session a young guy of about 18 walked in 
carrying a violin case, he came over and aked me if he could have a play 
with the band I said OK, he obviously did not know the rules, as we started 
to play the next number he took out his fiddle and boldly walked into the 
middle of the band, we all thought we had a bit of a nutter and got a little 
worried, he did not play until we indicated, he put bow to fiddle and 
proceeded to astonish us all, technique, power, fine improvising, passion in 
a hungarian gypsy sort of way, he was brilliant, we let him do the statuary 
three numbers, when we got chatting to him in the break, he said he had 
never played with a jazz band before just played along to Django recordings, 
he started when playing he was seven, he was a very bright young man, a 
little later he went to To St Perersburg Conservatory Of Music to study 
conducting and singing(he could speak fluent Russian and French) I found out 
about his background when he asked my band to play at his 21st birthday 
party, I asked where the gig was, he said at Sizergh Castle, I asked how 
much it was costing him to have his party there, he said nothing, it's 
mummy's side of the family, they had occupied it for.......wait for.....700 
years.

He is on this web site

http://www.sptimes.ru/story/1361