[Dixielandjazz] Small World, Jazz is where you find it.

[Stephen G Barbone]

Got a note today from a friend, Lou Kaplan, a retired Rabbi. I had  
given him a copy of one of Israeli  list mate Elazar Brandt's CDs,  
"Blowing My Own Horn" several years ago. The a year or so later, when  
he visited Australia, I gave him Bill Haesler's contact info and he  
saw Bill and the Robber Dogs in Sidney and brought back a Robber Dogs  
CD for me after enjoying Bill's performance.

Today he sent me a clipping from the "International Jerusalem  
Post" (December 2010) about Stanley Ross, an 80 year old trumpeter who  
fronted the Shalom Stompers, now The Stompers, in Israel.

Neat story about him. Born in Glasgow, his father - in - law was a  
Bugler in the British Army and stationed in Palestine in 1917 with  
General Allenby. He was a major influence on Ross learning the  
trumpet. Ross tried to emigrate to Israel in the 1960s but that didn't  
work out. Finally in 1982 he made Israel his home and after seeking  
others interested in OKOM, formed the Shalom Stompers with trombonist  
Amnon Ben-Artzi.

Ross is recovering from a triple by-pass and thinks he might have to  
give up playing because he doesn't yet have the strength to play the  
way he used to.

Elazar and Marek. Do you know him?  He lives in Netanya. Hopefully he  
will keep playing even if not like he used to.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband