[Dixielandjazz] Rio Clemente

[Harry Callaghan]

POINT OF ORDER, LET ME SPEAK
POINT OF ORDER, LET ME SPEAK

(That's actually from a Stan Freberg record that was a parody on the
McCarthy hearings from my youth)

Steve:
Nothing we've got to go to court over, but the only thing that I have posted
that anything to do with Morristown was Herb Gardner's Groundhog Day gig
originally scheduled for 2/01, then rescheduled for 2/14 due to inclement
weather.

As to my response to Marek, I made a wisecrack remark (moi, a wisecrack?)
making reference to the former Pittsburgh Pirate Roberto Clemente, when he
was talking about Rio Clemente

Since then, two DJML subscribers have contacted me offlist telling me that
quite coincidentally, someone did compose a ragtime number entitled "Roberto
Clemente" , I believe in 1978 in tribute to him.

As you might recall, Clemente who was Cuban died at age 38 in a plane crash
while transporting relief supplies to some country in Latin America.
Now why does the name of Fred's Farm sound familiar to me?  You say it's in
Lafayette, NJ?

Tides
HC

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Stephen G Barbone <
barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote answering Harry Callaghan:
>>
>>  Harryb wroteMonday, February 28 -- Pianist *Rio Clemente* will play the
>>> first piano solo of the year here. ?Come hear the Bishop of Jazz,
>>> unencumbered by sidemen.
>>> Rio is immensely popular throughout the region, and Morristown is his
>>> home
>>> turf. ?He can do wonders with their big Kawai grand, with his own
>>> stylistic
>>> facets that are difficult to categorize.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Marek answered: When I first encountered Rio Clemente at the Waterloo
>> Village Jazz
>> Festival all those years ago, it was with some anxiety - his name
>> hinted at Latin jazz.  How wrong I was!  I enjoyed his playing a lot,
>> and so probably will those of you who care to come and hear him.
>>
>
> Here I am returning Marek's favor and agreeing with HIM. I had the good
> fortune to play with Rio Clemente on piano, and Ed Wise on bass at Fred's
> Farm in Lafayette NJ  a year or two ago. He was absolutely stunning. We did
> some wonderful improv together on "New Orleans" that made it sound as if
> Bach wrote it.
>
> Not only a great jazz pianist, but also a great guy.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
>
>
>
>
>
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