[Dixielandjazz] Climax Jazz Band with Dick Cary video "Magnolia'sWedding Day"

[Ezra Kowadlo]

Marvellous stuff, thank you for posting Robert. I love it.

And you have a great website.



On 4 July 2011 08:06, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> A couple weeks ago David Richoux posted this video of Dick Cary with the
> Climax Jazz Band.
>
> I had the great pleasure of playing with Dick when I lived in Los Angeles.
>  He was a frequent sub in my Great Pacific Jazz Band.  Then when my pianist
> (I was playing banjo at the time) Jim Turner moved back east, Dick took over
> the piano.
>
> Dick would show up carrying his alto horn (Peck Horn) in a paper bag.  He'd
> set it down under the piano.  Since I stood near the piano, I'd often step
> on it, putting even more dents in it.  The horn already looked as if someone
> had taken a hammer to it.
>
> Dick would often pick up the Peck Horn and play wonderful, melodic solos.
>  With Bob Havens on trombone, they would often trade 4s and 8s a la the
> Eddie Condon days.
>
> Dick Cary's beautiful solos on the Peck Horn, a horn not usually used for
> Jazz solos was remarkable.  For a real treat, listen to this video of Dick
> with the Climax Jazz Band of Toronto Canada.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zHM2t7aUfM
>
> And here is another one:
>
>
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4i9x9_dick-cary-climax-jazz-band-as-long_music
>
> For over 50 years in New York and then Los Angeles, Dick hosted a Tuesday
> night Rehearsal band.  He would write arrangements for the band all week.
>  Then on Tuesday night, some of the best Jazz and studio musicians in town
> would come, just to sight read his arrangements.  I was privileged to be
> present at some of these rehearsals.
>
> The first Tuesday after Dick passed away, the musicians showed up at Dick's
> house for rehearsal.  Not knowing the house alarm code, they went in as
> usual and started playing Dick's arrangements.  Pretty soon the police came
> roaring up the driveway and were greeted with a 17 piece band playing Jazz.
>
> The next door neighbor was over heard saying to the police, "I don't know
> officer, they just broke in and started playing."
>
> To this day, the band continues to rehearse in another location on Tuesday
> nights, going through the thousands of arrangements and original
> compisitions left by Dick Cary.  Dick Hamilton now leads the band.  He had
> Cary's Peck Horn restored and plays it on the recordings.
>
> To listen to and purchase some of Dick Cary's Tuesday Night Friends, led by
> Dick Hamilton, see:
>
>
> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4i9x9_dick-cary-climax-jazz-band-as-long_music
>
> For you Mouldy Figgs, I warn you . . . . This is not Dixieland.  It is
> right out of Dick's incredible, musical brain.
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald
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>
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>
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Ezra