[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland @ Harlow & Wild Bill / Art Hodes and Adrian Cox/John Petters videos new on YouTube

[John Petters]

Hi Jerry,
The compliment on the piano may have been polite. That was the first gig 
of the tour. The piano sounds good on the recording. We had stopped in a 
Pizza restaurant in Norwich before the gig, but Bill was anxious to get 
to the hall to warm up. We left Annie with Art and Jan and the band and 
I drove him to the hall. As soon as he was out of Anne's sight he became 
the mischievious little boy, eying all the young girls! It was on this 
short drive that I asked him what he thought about Pee Wee. He said he 
felt he had to help him out. He said Ed Hall was great.

You did us proud that night.

This was in the relatively early days of video camera's and Louis Lince 
had got hold of a Sony Umatic machine. As the gig progressed and the 
light failed, Art disappeared into the shadows. Happy days.
Cheers
John

Jerry Brown wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Nice to see a memory of 'Jazz City' the weekly club I, and a few others, ran in the Fraser Hall at Norwich Labour Club (local party headquarters) every Sunday night. We did not last long, lost money, but the appearance of Davison and Hodes was the highlight of our short life.
> 
> My main story of the night was that Art arrived, walked onto the stage and looked at the rather battered piano which we had had tuned especially for the occasion. He looked worried but sat down, opened the lid and played a few scales and other bits, put the lid down, got up and walked off the stage to the bar where I was standing. I asked the dreaded question as he was not smiling but was greatly cheered by his answer, "It's one of the best I've played on this trip." I remember that during the evening he played a four hand duet with his wife as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jerry,
> Norwich,
> U.K.
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 26/1/09, John Petters <jdpetters at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: John Petters <jdpetters at btinternet.com>
>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Dixieland @ Harlow & Wild Bill / Art Hodes and Adrian Cox/John Petters videos new on YouTube
>> To: "Jerry Brown" <jazzjerry at btinternet.com>
>> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> Date: Monday, 26 January, 2009, 6:23 PM
>> Hi Folks,
>> Hot Dixieland Jazz – Chicago Style @ St John’s Arts
>> Centre Old Harlow
>> Thursday 29th January @8PM
>> Yes the first session of 2009 offers an all star ensemble
>> of highly talented musicians.
>>
>> This is a line-up which proves that good jazz is not age
>> related. Young cornettist, Allen Beechey, devotee of Wild
>> Bill Davison pays another visit to the venue.
>>
>> Too young to catch the Wild One on the tour with my Legends
>> of American Dixieland 20 years ago, Allen has managed to
>> assimilate Bill’s instantly recognisable style.
>>
>> Another young player, Mark Crooks, always delights wherever
>> he plays. He has recently been portraying Artie Shaw in a
>> concert.
>>
>> Martin Litton worked on a recording session in 1986 with
>> Wild Bill and Jack Free, very much an elder statesman of
>> British Jazz was on the CD ‘Together Again’ with Bill
>> and Art Hodes, as well as the session we did with Yank
>> Lawson in 1986.
>>
>> Keith Donald was of course on hand for all these sessions
>> and will be joining me in the rhythm section.
>>
>> Admission is £10 and the gig starts at 8PM
>>
>> New Videos on YouTube
>> I have posted two new videos on YouTube.  One features the
>> young clarinettist, Adrian Cox, together with Martin Litton,
>> Annie Hawkins and I at Harlow in November.
>> The link is
>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dO57Z5pNroI
>>
>> The other is a historical document, in that it is twenty
>> years since I organised what was to be the final tour for
>> Wild Bill Davison and Art Hodes.
>>
>> The package, called the ‘Legends of American
>> Dixieland’, (which also featured the late Campbell Burnap,
>> with Dave Bailey and Keith Donald), toured all over the
>> country in May 1989.
>>
>> Louis Lince filmed the concerts in Norwich and Harlow on a
>> professional Sony video camera. Sadly the tape from the
>> Harlow Playhouse concert was unplayable, but I have managed
>> to get the Norwich session transferred to DVD.
>>
>> Terry Maton, who co-promoted the tour with me & drove
>> the band wagon, also recorded nearly all the concerts on CD
>> quality digital tape. I have been able to dub and
>> synchronise the good sound on to the video.
>> Have a look at
>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vKNCkh0hJVs
>>
>> Keep swinging
>>
>>
>> -- John Petters
>> www.traditional-jazz.com
>> Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ
>>
>>
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John Petters
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