[Dixielandjazz] THE BROTHERS NEWBERGER

[Harry Callaghan]

Ron:

Yes, they are indeed siblings.

I'm curious, though as to whether you actually played with the New Black
Eagles and if so, was it back when the band was formed by Tommy Sancton?

I have a cassette (God only knows where) that was recorded at some festival
in Sweden circa 1992.  The liner notes explained that Tommy met with Geoff
Bull from Australia and they merged their two bands while performing there.

Never met Eli but am well acquainted as to his musical prowess by way of
some CDs he recorded with Jimmy Mazzy that Henry kindly provided me with.

And, when referring to Henry as "Crazy" I do not mince words.

Harry


 On 8/9/10, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:
>
> Henry, I believe is Eli Newberger's brother.  I know Eli well from the New
> Black Eagles but I don't think I've ever met his brother.
>
> Ron L
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Harry
> Callaghan
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 12:56 PM
> To: lherault at bu.edu
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fwd: the future of jazz?
>
> This comes courtesy of my friend "Crazy Henry" Newberger (piano, trombone,
> tuba) "way out in Coram, LI"*......who is actually "way out" **no matter
> where he happens to be.*
>
>
> Music Review Not Your Ordinary Marching Band
> Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times
>
> Asphalt Orchestra on Broadway in a Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert on
> Wednesday night that began at Alice Tully Hall and included a solo from the
> reflecting pool.
> By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER Published: August 5, 2010
>
> A casual observer at Lincoln
> Center<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/l/l
> incoln_center_for_the_performing_arts/index.html?inline=nyt-org>on
> Wednesday evening might have wondered what on earth was going on when
> a
> large, eclectic crowd made a frenzied dash across 65th Street, following a
> ragtag band of musicians who had careened across the road like deranged
> pied
> pipers.
> <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/>
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html>
>
> The moblike scene occurred during a performance by the rambunctious Asphalt
> Orchestra, <http://asphaltorchestra.com/> an avant-garde 12-piece marching
> band presented here by Lincoln Center Out of
> Doors.<http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/lc-ood-2010>
>
> This quirky ensemble, the brainchild of Bang on a Can, marches to an
> iconoclastic beat, eschewing typical brass-band fare for funky arrangements
> and inventive new works.
>
> The event began in a comparatively sedate fashion, with the audience seated
> on the steps in front of Alice Tully Hall, as the ensemble entered from
> 65th
> Street and paraded up and down the triangular staircase on the corner of
> the
> plaza. The musicians stopped in front of the hall for their first work,
> "Carlton," by
> Stew<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/stew/index
> .html?inline=nyt-per>and
> Heidi Rodewald. Listeners stayed seated despite the toe-tapping
> rhythms
> and ear-catching tunes. At a few points the band shouted out the letters of
> the song title.
>
> There was an element of performance art throughout the approximately
> 30-minute show. The musicians played with virtuosic flair while twisting,
> turning and executing moves choreographed by Susan Marshall and Mark
> DeChiazza, no easy feat when dealing with complex metric shifts and
> carrying
> bulky percussion and brass instruments as large as a sousaphone.
>
> The performance art aspect seemed particularly vivid during the
> premiere of Yoko
> Ono<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/yoko_ono/in
> dex.html?inline=nyt-per>'s
> "Opus 81," when the trumpeter Stephanie Richards, dressed in shorts and
> boots, stood alone in Lincoln Center Plaza's reflecting pool playing a
> mournful solo. Her colleagues gathered at the edges of the pool, their
> insistent motifs underpinning Ms. Richards's elegiac solo.
>
> The action shifted to the grove of trees nearby for the premiere of "Two
> Ships," by David Byrne and Annie Clark (who is known as St. Vincent), and
> Ms. Richards's arrangement of the sultry "Wild About My Daddy," by the
> Laneville-Johnson Union Brass Band.
>
> Some members of the large, appreciative crowd that followed the Asphalt
> players as they moved through the plaza swayed to the irresistible beats in
> the lively arrangement of Thomas Mapfumo's "Ngoma
> Yekwedu,"<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKAo3nw6cI>by Alex Hamlin,
> the band's soprano saxophonist.
>
> The musicians snaked over to the fountain for their final piece, an
> arrangement by Peter Hess (the group's tenor saxophonist) of Frank
> Zappa<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/frank_zap
> pa/index.html?inline=nyt-per>'s
> "Zomby Woof." Patrons waiting for a Mostly
> Mozart<
> http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/m/mostly
> _mozart_festival/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>concert
> to begin at Avery Fisher Hall leaned over the balcony to enjoy a
> vigorous rendition of the arrangement, with slapstick musical touches,
> rapidly shifting time signatures and wailing trumpet solos that echoed
> through the plaza.
>
> The Asphalt Orchestra will give additional free performances on Friday,
> Saturday and Sunday nights at various locations at Lincoln Center;
> lincolncenter.org.
>
>
>
>
>
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> were and say why not            -
>                        -George Bernard Shaw
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Some men see things as they are and say why....I dream things that never
were and say why not            -
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-- 
Some men see things as they are and say why....I dream things that never
were and say why not            -
                        -George Bernard Shaw