[Dixielandjazz] (no subject)

Sat Jul 3 15:48:26 PDT 2010

I won't say that I don't like Harry's singing but right from the start I
have always had far more respect for him as a jazz pianist.than a vocalist.

I'm curious.......how do you feel about Michael Buble? Diana Krall?

On 7/3/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sounds interesting, your Harry Connick.  Since usually he sings on
> every number he plays, whenever I see his name I skip it.
> Regards
>
> On 4 July 2010 01:03, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > About as much as Audrey Hepburn's birthday.  (cigarettes to
> coffee)......Or,
> > as Stan Freberg once said, "It makes a difference to the
> > sheep".........better left unexplained, trust me.
> >
> > Now that I have enough about you to devote an entire chapter in my book,
> who
> > would you like to have play you when it's made into a movie?
> >
> > Glad you never smoked. It's not really much to brag about quitting
> > cigarettes cold turkey 23 years ago if you were dumb enough to smoke them
> > for 32 years before that.(which I have to admit I was)  No sense to it,
> just
> > wanted to be "one of the guys".and then I was hooked.(but at least they
> > always had printing on the paper)
> >
> > Now, for our friends with musical interests, I must brag about my lastest
> > online acquisition, "Harry Connick: Eleven" which has Harry playing with
> a
> > dixieland band in 1978 when he was 11 years old.  He only does one vocal
> on
> > it, "Doctor Jazz" and kinda gives it a "Satchmo touch"
> >
> > I actually bought it to send to my grandson who is just shy of 10 and has
> > been taking piano lessons for a little over a year.  I like to think of
> it
> > as an "incentive album".  Of course, he won't have Ellis Marsalis as his
> > mentor, so he'll have to work a little harder but he is playing by ear
> and
> > my daughter tells me that he is steadily improving.
> >
> > Grandpa has already designed his first album cover.
> >
> >
> > On 7/3/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What have cigarettes to do with it?  Never having smoked, I cannot
> >> understand.
> >> As to coffee, I drank a lot of coffee wt work, but more as an excuse
> >> to make a break than for a real need.  We worked crazy hours - I knew
> >> when I started (in the middle of the night, i.e. - 7:30AM; byt the
> >> time I woke up I had already been working for some three hours and was
> >> tired), but not when I'd finish.  It was often 12-15 hours, sometimes
> >> more.  The longest I worked straight was 32 hours.  But I did not need
> >> coffee to keep me awake; a glass or two of vodka did a much better job
> >> in that respect.  And yes, I did drink on the job, and never in my 28
> >> years with the firm got a complaint because of that (I worked for an
> >> accounting firm that has become a member firm of the Big Five).
> >> Actually, once when the managing partner was especially happy with my
> >> advice - I prevented his writing a nonsense in his letter - he called
> >> the office messenger and told him to go to the Wine Route (a local
> >> wine chain) and get me the best vodka they had - and he knew it would
> >> only leave the office when empty.
> >> But I drank the most coffee in the army - I did combat military
> >> reserve duty till age 52.  It was mostly extremely boring - sitting in
> >> strongholds and observing the area, all the time on the alert lest a
> >> diversant tries to cross the border.  Coffee was killing time - first
> >> one called all the positions to ask whther they wanted some, than
> >> making it, then bringing it to everybody, and then - another 30-45
> >> minutes were gone.  True, sometimes it got wasted, if anything touched
> >> the electronic fence and we had to abandon everything (except those on
> >> guard duty at the time) and rush to the fence to see what happened.
> >> Thus, in the reserves i often had up to 20 a day.
> >> I practically stopped drinking coffee as soon as I left the bondage
> >> and became a free man.  But I did not give up my strong, properly
> >> brewed (a long process) tea.  I do not drink tea from tea bags nor
> >> instant coffee, only the real thing.
> >> With kindest regards
> >>
> >> On 4 July 2010 00:09, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Marek:
> >> >
> >> > One cup of hot tea with breakfast each morning.  A half-gallon jar of
> >> > sun
> >> > tea usually
> >> > is good for two days.  Haven't had coffee in about 15 years.......was
> a
> >> > 10-12 cup a
> >> > day man back then, constantly "wired" on the stuff., then went cold
> >> > turkey
> >> > as I did with
> >> > cigarettes 23 years ago.. We will refrain from the subject of sex as
> >> > this is
> >> > a "family
> >> > discussion group"
> >> >
> >> > Harry
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 7/3/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Oh, come on, Harry!  how can you sleep without a good dose of
> >> >> caffeine?!
> >> >> My wifes grndfather used to say that he could not understand
> >> >> something: People said they couldn't sleep when they drank coffee.
> >> >> With him it was the other way round: je could not drink coffee when
> he
> >> >> was sleeping.
> >> >> Jazz content - at our jazz evenings I almost always have at least two
> >> >> cups of strong coffee (not the dirty water that passes for cofffee in
> >> >> the States).
> >> >> Cheers,
> >> >> Marek the tea drinker (six cups a day, two with each meal, the colour
> >> >> of good espresso)
> >> >>
> >> >> On 3 July 2010 23:44, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > Funny you should mention that, Bill........lately I've been
> receiving
> >> >> > politically-motivated e-mails with TEABAGS attached to them
> >> >> >
> >> >> > My daughter told me that there is now also a COFFEE PARTY
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I'm thinking of organizing my own party and calling it the
> >> >> > DECAFFIENETED
> >> >> > PARTY.  We may not achieve our political goals, but we'll probably
> >> >> > sleep
> >> >> > better at night.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Tides,
> >> >> > HC
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On 7/3/10, billsharp <sharp-b at clearwire.net> wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Tags I attach to emails:
> >> >> >> Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good
opinion
of himself, undisturbed by the facts

            - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)