[Dixielandjazz] OzOd ~ Where Am I?

[David M Richoux]

One suggestion for current 2-Beat Oz Tuba driven jazz would actually  
be a "jug/skiffle/comedy" band that is more tuba driven than most jazz  
bands! I am talking about Mic Conway's National Junk Band (with  
Carolyn Johns on tuba.)
http://www.nationaljunkband.com/junkband.html or
http://www.myspace.com/nationaljunkbandand  - they are hot and fun! A  
history that goes back to the 1970's with Captain Matchbook Whoopee   
Band and a connection to the mysterious Kransky Sisters.

If there ever was a current Australian band to bring over to  
Sacramento Jazz Festival, they would be my choice - others may argue,  
go ahead!
1950s Yerba Buena is fine, been playing that for 30 years, but if we  
are going to continue the tradition there has to be some new inclusion!

Dave Richoux

On Mar 26, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Graham Martin wrote:

> Gees Richard,
>
> I am horrified that you think Australian bands play two-beat tuba  
> jazz. The acoustic string bass is by far the most used bass  
> instrument and you even see more electric basses than brass ones.  
> You will really have to tell us which specific bands you have been  
> hearing, and I'll give you some better suggestions.
>
> For the last six years I have been living back in Brisbane and,  
> unlike the rest of Australia, Queensland does not have daylight  
> saving. That puts us an hour behind the rest of Australia and the  
> common joke is that this is the understatement of the century. But  
> even here in backward Queensland we have great string bass players  
> dominating the scene - for instance: Derek Capewell and Ian Cocking  
> - although, come to think of it, they both play tuba - but not often.
>
> I am saying all of this hoping desperately that my good mate Nikola  
> Shaw does not read it. I must admit that Nikola and her tuba have  
> injected themselves into the festival scene in the last few years.  
> Nikola is a very popular addition bopping around in the rhythm  
> section at the back of the band. Nikola is a superb brass player and  
> if you don't like her two-beat influence she is quite happy to play  
> four-in-the-bar walking bass lines on her tuba. Actually, I prefer  
> her trombone playing and we have a band together using a three-piece  
> trombone frontline and called 'Bling Bones'. We use an electric bass  
> (Eeek!) in the rhythm section.
>
> There is still a small Yerba Buena influence in Australian jazz but  
> it has mainly died out and Condon-style, British trad or mainstream  
> influences are much more common. I am a Pom myself and I never ever  
> saw a band with a tuba during those crazy years of the British trad  
> boom.
>
> Four-beat jazz forever! Even in Australia. Blame tubas on those west  
> coast American types.
>
> Grah
>
> Graham Martin
> REDLAND BAY
> Queensland
> AUSTRALIA
>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] OzOd ~ Where Am I?
>
> Good Afternoon,
>
>
> Just heard a band on an ozjazzpod and it sounded like an Ozband but  
> it wasn't ~ it was those damn Firemen on San Antonio Rose.  They  
> crept up on me!
>
> I feel wobbly pass the smelling salts I've overdosed on 2 beat tuba  
> jazz.
>
> If that weren't bad enough I had the double size Dixieland band of  
> Pete Fountain to deal with.
>
> All this followed an interview where Artie Shaw describes the impact  
> of Armstrong's Savoy Blues solo.  Where did it all go wrong?
>
> In need of some Buck, Red, Roy, Lester ...... some Kid Thomas should  
> bring me round.
>
> Richard OzOd Log ... those vintage OzOriginals are hard to track down.
>
> Where's Jack & Bill when I need them  ~ bxxxxx Time Zones.  Add 2 xx  
> it should read blinking!
>
> Is it true that the Tuba was introduced into Australia to control  
> the native Accordion.
>
>
>
>
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