[Dixielandjazz] Marek ~ Bill ~ Jack ~ Steve

Wed Mar 24 16:23:31 PDT 2010

Hello Marek, 

I wouldn't agree on all, I'm sure you'd not expect that, but most. Would you believe it but I've played alongside Chisholm (twice).  Talk about out of my depth.  Spike Hughes American Band made some very good sides and contained that wonderful flute player Carver.  Going back further The Savoy Orpheans made good tracks, Yale Blues for a start.  Benny Carter swinging Pardon Me Pretty Baby nice track.

Back to those Spike Hughes tracks ~ the solos are outstanding. Those recordings should be in everyone's collection.

I'm trying to winkle out the nuggets of OzJazz, but my OzPals are coy. Aussie's backward in coming forward?

Knowing you stuck up for Gonella, try Lew Stone's My Woman. Gonellas trumpet was 'sampled' and used on a UK pop hit single.

More British Gold ~ Barber At The London Palladium (doesn't Patterson sing well, and Joe Harriott is present too).  For Steve B, if you can get hold of that album, the duet between Ian Wheeler and Joe Harriott, on 'S Wonderful, is a gem.

One more thing Marek, and Bill H, and Jack M ~ if my grammar and spelling is not to form (is it ever!), put it down to a bottle of Empire beer, followed by some cheap Aussie Red from the local Co-Op.

Richard

OzOd ... now anchored in Botany Bay ... Deja Vu?

---- Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On 24/03/2010, richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com
> <richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sure thing!
> How about those swinging records made in the 1930's and '40's by
> Ambrose, Elizalde, Gonella, and so many others?  Benny Carter and his
> "Highland Swing" (a humorous reference to the many Scotts in the BBC
> Big Band of those days).  And one sould not forget George Chisholm,
> Sid Phillips and his many small combinations, etc. etc.  And then,
> there was Spike Hughes, who recorded not ONLY with his American band,
> but made some excellent records with Britisah musicians.  And during
> WWII, there were The Squadronnaires.
> Cheers,
> Marek (not British)
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> >
> >
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