[Dixielandjazz] Edinburgh jazz

[Marek Boym]

"Joop being very funny."
Are you kidding?
Joop is a person who can tell a joke in Dutch and make the whole house
crack up (including people like me, to whom it's double Dutch).
I first heard Joop on piano, and whenever I hear him playing sax,
which he does very well, I am sorry he is not playing piano!  One of
my favourite pianinsts, and you should hear his propulsive vibes
playing!
Cheers

On 28/06/2008, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Marek,
>
> Thanks for the mail. Yes I remember doing the gig, but don't remember a
> great deal about it other than Joop being very funny (so what's new?). I
> played a couple of gigs with him around that time and on one of them he
> played piano rather than sax, which surprised me as I didn't know he played
> piano to that level. He's a nice guy and lets his humour come through very
> strongly in his playing.
>
> I'd forgotten Al Fairweather was on that session. He was another lovely guy,
> but his shyness was the complete opposite of Joop's extrovert personality,
> although there was no doubt about the authority of his playing. My band, The
> Classic Jazz Orchestra, has a piece in its repertoire simply called
> "Fairweather". It's a lovely original piece by saxophonist Dick Lee (you've
> maybe heard him playing with Swing 1986, 1987, 1988....and he's still there
> in 2008. Dick is also a founding member of the CJO and is one of its most
> important soloists.
>
> Who else was on the 1992 session and what did we play? It's great to know a
> recording of it exists, as all musicians enjoy hearing long-lost sessions
> that were fun at the time, even if some musicians get grumpy about
> unauthorised recordings. I'm not one of them and am still hoping someone
> will have a recording of a session from an Edinburgh Jazz Festival in the
> early 1980s at the Osborne Hotel featuring Doc Cheatham, Acker Bilk, Roy
> Williams, Brian Lemon, Len Skeat and me. It was an amazing gig in which
> everyone played at the top of their game and Acker still rates it as one of
> the most memorable gigs on his career.
>
> It was very kind of you to get in touch. I've seen your posts to DJML and
> enjoy your contributions. It's an interesting, if very US-oriented list, but
> full of very knowledgable people. Incidentally, the bass-player in CJO, Roy
> Percy (who also plays with Swing 1986-2008) was meant to appear at this
> year's Caesarea Festival with Jeff Barnhart, but, on the day, the airline
> refused to take his bass after agrreeing that it would be no problem. He was
> very upset about missing the festival and at losing a lot of  income.
>
> Best Regards and shalom,
>
> Ken
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: "Ken Mathieson" <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:40 PM
> Subject: Edinburgh jazz
>
>
> >
> > Hello Ken,
> > Having listened to a recording I made at a jamm session at the 1992
> > Edinburgh festival, I found out that you were there, playing drums
> > with Joop Petters from Holland, Al Fairweather, and others.
> > Very nice.
> > Cheers,
> > Marek
> >
> >
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