[Dixielandjazz] On The Lines Of ....

[richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com]

If say an Aussie were to ask me, with let's say 20 yrs less experience than you, about the UK scene "where would I start"?

I may answer Ken Colyer/Chris Barber, Humph's Parlophones (even those splendid efforts with the foreigners), or Alex Welsh or Sandy Brown.  I'd still be missing lots out.

Go on be a Devil. Don't keep it all to yourselves.  

Richard  Captain of OzOdZe, one crew member so far and 2 Reluctant Dragomen.

Come Bill, Jack, when I said I didn't care much for the Firehouse Five half the USA came down upon me.

Don't want to make that mistake again.

What Top OzBand ring Ships Bell before each number! Oh No!




---- Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote: 
> <richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com> wrote [in part] in reply to Mike Thomason's reference to me:
> > Bill and I have exchanged email and Jack Mitchell too. 
> 
> Dear Richard and Mike,
> I have not been deliberately ignoring you, or the subject of Australian jazz.
> And, like my dear mate Jack Mitchell, dare not get involved in a crash course regarding Australian jazz music.
> It's like that old chestnut, "How long is a piece of string?"
> Specific questions, yes, but "enlightening."
> Mmmmmm.
> It has taken Jack and me since the mid 1940s to absorb it all, and we are still at it.
> Jack's definitive discographies: 
> 	'Australian Jazz On Record 1925-80.' (1988. Australian Government Publishing Service). AJOR
> 	'More Australian Jazz On Record.' (1998. Nationa Film And Sound Archive). MAJOR
> 	'Even More Australian Jazz On Record.' (2002. The Victorian Jazz Archive Inc.) EMAJOR
> would be a good start. If you can find the first two.
> The following link is to a brief summary I wrote for the new 'Jazz In Australia' website:
>   http://www.jazzinaustralia.org.au/history.html
> provides a brief historical background to the subject, including our 'modern' scene.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.
>