[Dixielandjazz] Kenny Baker - didn't get "Well, Get it" woodchoppers ball OK

[Marek Boym]

Hello,
Jazz Score!  Does that bring back memories!  I used to play truant to
work for half an hour weekly to listen to it, risking being fired.

But, despite its name, Jazz Score, athough a "quiz" programme, was not
really about identifying tunes and/or musicians; it was really a
humour programme.  I often came back to the office with belly aches, I
laughed so hard!   The Brits made it into a stand-up; only American
musicians sometimes participating in the programme gave staight face
answers.  The only exception to the rule was Bob Wilber who, after a
short time in the UK, got the hang of things and sounded almost like a
native - except for the accent, that is.

Oh, nostalgia...

On 22/02/2010, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
> here is the link to KB's discography
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> http://vzone.virgin.net/davidh.taylor/baker.htm
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> REG rather than Ray Owen
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> another KB memory involves him on the JAZZ SCORE radio show of blessed memory  --
> The name of Bruce Adams came up, and Kenny making the lift of his eyebrows audible insisted HE'S GOT GREAT CHOPS.
> GREAT CHOPS
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> The very seal of admiration!  Of course Kenny was not one of those sub-individuals impressed by sheer technical display,
> he had an appreciation of craftsmanship of ths sort normally associated less with jazz than with ultra-efficient compliance
> with the indications of a score and a conductor when that is in sheerly technical terms difficult.
> Many of us would say that Bruce, like Kenny, wasn't just a sublime technician but also a terrific soloist and not just a lot of trumpet.
> Kenny was saying that Bruce as well as being a terrific soloist was a sublime technican who played a whale of a lot of trumpet.
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