[Dixielandjazz] Vince Giordano & Boardwalk Empire.

[rahberry at comcast.net]

Over two years ago I made a video of Tamas 
playing the Stroh violin. 


http://www.youtube.com/user/SFRaeAnn?feature=mhum#p/search/0/Bo3VJlTzOLA 


(Since then I've bought a better camera.) 


-- Rae Ann 

http://www.sfraeann.com 
http://www.youtube.com/sfraeann 
http://www.craigventresco.com 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com> 
To: rahberry at comcast.net 
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> 
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:43:38 PM 
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Vince Giordano & Boardwalk Empire. 

> Giordano is exactly where he wants to be. He’s right in the middle of the 
> bandstand, leading his musicians through a dance floor smash that’s nearly a 
> century old. In his hands is an instrument that even savvy fans of the HBO 
> hit television show can’t have seen before: something like a cross between a 
> fiddle, a phonograph and a Colonial musket. “It’s a Stroh violin,” says 
> Giordano, “a fiddle with an amplifying device built in. “It’s mine.” 

Listmate Tamas Itzes plays one of those. I am not sure he can be seen 
playing it on You Tube, but I have seen him both live and on TV doing 
it; I even have a video cassette on which he does, taped off 
tlevision. 



> Finding others who shared his passion was not easy. “In those days, the only 
> place you heard old jazz was on programs like ‘Little Rascals.’ Kids my age 
> would say, ‘There goes Vince with his crazy cartoon music.’ 

A good friend of mine, when I invited her to our jazz evenings, said 
that she did not know there were people who were jazz fans, but 
neither did she know there were people who disliked jazz. In her 
early twenties at the time (I'm too polite to mention when that was), 
she came to know aln love jazz watching cartoons and old films on 
television as a kid. 

Cheers 

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