[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 116, Issue 30

Tue Aug 28 16:19:54 PDT 2012

I confirm Dick Parks comments on bands doing vocals.  I'm one of the regulars at St. Elmo's for most of the 15 years
the band has been there and the regulars agree that Thursday nights are a highpoint for all of us..

Chas Enlind

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> 1. Two tunes for "Everything He Does Just Pleases Me" (Bill Haesler)
> 2. Vocals - the more the better (Dick Parks)
> 3. Re: Knowing the lyric--Ken Dryden writes (Mike Potters)
> 4. Missing photograph (Bill Haesler)
> 5. Re: Missing photograph (M J (Mike) Logsdon)
> 6. Missing photograph (Bill Haesler)
> 7. Classic Jazz Orchestra (Ken Mathieson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:23:54 +1000
> From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
> To: Bruce Stangeland <stangeland at earthlink.net>, Dixieland Jazz
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Two tunes for "Everything He Does Just
> Pleases Me"
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> Bruce Stangeland wrote:
> > While doing some research on the tune "Everything He Does Just Pleases Me" which appears in the Anderson collection (page. 4454), I happened to find another song with the same title <http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/metsnav/inharmony/navigate.do?oid=http://fedora.dlib.indiana.edu/fedora/get/iudl:48604/METADATA&pn=1&size=screen> at the Indiana University digital archives.
> > The one from Anderson was written in 1916 by Artie Matthews (author of Weary Blues).
> > The one from Indiana University was copyrighted in 1914 by Russell Smith.
> > Matthews' chorus stars out: "Ev-'ry-thing He Does Just Pleas-es Me. He's my an-gel child. Suits me to a "T"."
> > Smith's chorus starts out: "Ev-'ry-thing He Does Just Pleas-es Me. He cert-'nly suits my taste just to a "T".
> 
> Dear Bruce, 
> Very interesting.
> Matthews version, published by Stark, was his last ragtime/popular music composition before he left that music scene.
> But does seem to be too much of a coincidence.
> Have you been able to compare the tunes from the sheet music?
> I found a midi of the Smith version at:
> http://www.pitt-payne.com/midi-downloads.html?func=showdown&id=4565
> plus several sheet music sites with downloads of both versions.
> As you will have already done.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:22:19 -0400
> From: "Dick Parks" <dparks999 at verizon.net>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Vocals - the more the better
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> Our Not-So-Modern-Jazz Quartet (plus a couple) has played at one venue for 
> 15 years now. The place is a non-smoking coffee joint with food, no table 
> service. The audience is maybe half regulars and half walk-ins with kids. 
> The more tunes we sing, the better the applause. We play a mix if dixieland 
> and the 20s - 30s songbook. And it doesn't matter if the vocalists are 
> trained, so along as they're close to the tune and hold the rhythm.
> I've heard that the old-timers who kept the lyrics in mind always said they 
> soloed better.
> And somebody needs to play a straight lead at least twice during a tune. 
> Just sayin' -
> 
> Dick Parks 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:02:43 -0500
> From: Mike Potters <wanderermp at aol.com>
> To: Norman Vickers <nvickers1 at cox.net>
> Cc: "<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>"
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> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Knowing the lyric--Ken Dryden writes
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> Yea, but on the other hand, some pretty wonderful things would often happen if Pops forgot a lyric.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Aug 24, 2012, at 12:45 PM, "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > To: Musicians & Jazzfans; DJML
> > From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola
> > 
> > 
> > Broadcaster and jazz journalist Ken Dryden of Chattanooga quips:
> > 
> > From: Ken Dryden [mailto:askkendryden at yahoo.com] 
> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 12:29 PM
> > 
> > 
> > There was a story that Oscar Peterson told during one of his appearances on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.
> > Ben Webster thought it was essential to know the lyrics to songs he was playing and one time he came off of
> > the stage at the end of a set. Oscar asked him what was wrong and he replied, "I forgot the lyric!"
> > 
> > Ken Dryden
> > --end--
> > 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:35:57 +1000
> From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Missing photograph
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> Dear Listmates,
> Back in June 2010 avid DJMLer Mike Logsdon and I discussed the following off list.
> Nothing came of it and I forgot about it until coming across it just now.
> It concerns a photograph of Mutt Cary and Ed Garland at (probably) the Dawn Club with Watters' band members.
> Mutt and Ed have their Red Cap caps on.
> I have never seen it, but a mate recalls it from a magazine or book, and still remembers it.
> But from where?
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:48:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: "M J (Mike) Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Missing photograph
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> I don't have it handy, but the first thing that comes to mind is that thin volume from some time back on Lu Watters, with discography, etc. By an Aussie, Bill? I bought my copy new back in, I think, 1996-97 from Ted Shafer.
> 
> Sent from my cOmputer
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:37:39 +1000
> From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Missing photograph
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> M J (Mike) Logsdon wrote:
> > I don't have it handy, but the first thing that comes to mind is that thin volume from some time back on Lu Watters, with discography, etc. By an Aussie, Bill? I bought my copy new back in, I think, 1996-97 from Ted Shafer.
> 
> Dear Mike,
> You mean my mate John Buchanan's 1996 book 'Emperor Norton's Hunch'.
> Nope, not in there.
> My mate, who recalls the pic, is going back into the 1940s-50s and the days of the 'Record Changer' music mag.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.
> 
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:08:21 +0100
> From: "Ken Mathieson" <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
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> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Classic Jazz Orchestra
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> Hi Folks,
> 
> Back at the end of July my band appeared in the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival in front of a capacity audience in one of the 3 Spiegeltents on the George Square site. The review below appeared in a local newspaper and is now archived in the reviewer's blog. At the end of the review, she gives the playlist, but this omits the last 2 numbers (maybe she had had enough by that time and left!) which were Jelly's Sidewalk Blues (complete with automobile klaxon) and a riotous Black Bottom Stomp.
> 
> http://jazzmatters.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/edinburgh-jazz-festival-2012-ken-mathieson-classic-jazz-orchestra-salutes-the-kings-of-jazz/
> 
> As you'll see from the playlist, the bulk of the concert was a commemoration of Bix's music, but we also played some Bechet, Hodges, Jelly, Armstrong and Duke for contrast. I had floated the idea of a Bix concert in 2011, since the date of our concert then almost coincided to the day with the 80th anniversary of Bix's untimely passing. The festival planners weren't interested in the idea then, but this year they came up with the iidea of a Bix theme, so, allowing for 2012 being a leap year, we played an eighty years and threehunderd and fiftyfive days commemoration concert.
> 
> I wasn't aware of it at the time, but the reviewer, Alison Kerr, also filmed some of our gig and you can see a couple of numbers at:
> http://jazzmatters.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/edinburgh-jazz-festival-in-videos-classic-jazz-orchestra/
> 
> On the grounds that all publicity is good publicity and that she had written such a good review, I wasn't going to raise an objection. The two numbers on her blog have very similar tempos, so it's just a pity she didn't film Black Bottom Stomp or Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down as they were ravers at about 240 beats per minute, but hey ho, no complaints. Incidentally, our trombonist, Phil O'Malley, is now in danger of being called "Half Man, Half Pillar."
> 
> I hope you enjoy the clips,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ken
> 
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