[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 120, Issue 12

Sat Dec 8 13:15:59 PST 2012

Hello Cat,

DieHard? Spooky stuff indeed. I was going to have a picnic - Cheese, 
French bread, Pickles, Cornichons and wine. It doesn't sound so good as 
what's being served at Chez Doggette. I think I'll make some leek and 
potato soup and finish with Ice Cream - yes, that sounds a bit better.

I would really truly love to light your fire, but you live so far away. 
I'd also love to hear you say OooooH, but without the question mark. 
January 3rd is oh so close and closer every day.

The good thing about leeks is you can peel off the outer layers until 
you get to the good stuff. Leeks, here I come!

Loving you, Tony

AND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia4BgnjPG7w

That might not be the correct thing so try this -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNDdTuof-Ys

Thinking about you all the time! LALOL, T

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>     1. Happy Birthday (Robert Ringwald)
>     2. Jazz on line (Marek Boym)
>     3. Happy Hanuccah (Marek Boym)
>     4. Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong,	Duke Ellington reviewed
>        (Robert Ringwald)
>     5. Christmas with Louis Armstrong -- NY Times (Robert Ringwald)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:20:23 -0800
> From: "Robert Ringwald"<rsr at ringwald.com>
> To: "DJML"<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Happy Birthday
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> Louis prima, Dec 7
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>
> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
> 916/ 806-9551
>
> "Jesus loves you."
> A nice gesture in church but a terrible thing to hear in a Mexican prison.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 15:56:58 +0200
> From: Marek Boym<marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz on line
> Message-ID:
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> Perhaps not a replacement of Radio OKOM, but theres' plenty of
> traditional jazz and swing thre - you only need to click on the right
> square.  And if you don't like what's playing right now, there is a
> "skip" button.  Of course, not the quality of a good stereo system,
> but then, neither was Radio OKOm nor any other on-line music station.
> Enjoy!
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 15:57:51 +0200
> From: Marek Boym<marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Happy Hanuccah
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> Happy Hanuccah to all Jewish listmates,
> Marek,
> Israel
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 07:50:26 -0800
> From: "Robert Ringwald"<rsr at ringwald.com>
> To: "DJML"<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong,	Duke Ellington
> 	reviewed
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> by Howard Reich
> Chicago Tribune, December 7, 2012
> Bessie Smith: 'The Complete Columbia Recordings' (Columbia/Legacy; $79.98)
> When Columbia/Legacy began reissuing Smith's recordings in boxed sets in the 1990s,
> the releases unfolded over several years in a series of lavishly produced double-CD
> packages. A great deal has changed in the record industry since then, and this time
> the label has brought all the recordings into a smaller, more manageable 10-CD box.
> Either way, Smith's magisterial instrument thunders, from the opening cuts of the
> rough-and-tumble "Down Hearted Blues" and "Gulf Coast Blues" (both recorded in 1923)
> to sleeker, more polished cuts, such as "Do Your Duty" (recorded in 1933), accompanied
> by future jazz eminences, among them trombonist Jack Teagarden and tenor saxophonist
> Chu Berry.
> Louis Armstrong: 'The Okeh Columbia and RCA Victor Records -- 1925-1933' (Columbia/Legacy;
> $79.98)
> Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings, made when he was based in Chicago
> during the mid-1920s, represent one of two templates for defining early jazz (the
> other being Jelly Roll Morton's releases with his Red Hot Peppers). If Armstrong
> never had recorded again or never had become a pop-culture icon, his position as
> a codifier of the art of jazz improvisation would be undiminished. The latest reissue
> of this music, like the aforementioned Bessie Smith box, is less gilded and more
> compact than earlier releases. In addition, it stretches beyond those seminal recordings
> with Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles to include his collaborations with
> Earl Hines (in various contexts in Chicago), and Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
> (in New York), spread across 10 CDs.
> Duke Ellington: 'The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection -- 1951-1958' (Columbia/Legacy;
> $74.98)
> Ellington's centennial, in 1999, saw so many reissues of his music that one might
> have thought the subject was closed. But this nine-CD set represents an accessible
> way for listeners unfamiliar with Ellington's music to become acquainted with it
> and an opportunity for connoisseurs to re-evaluate his often underappreciated work
> of the 1950s. Albums such as "Masterpieces by Ellington" contain the hits audiences
> around the world will recognize (such as "Mood Indigo" and "Solitude"), while "Such
> Sweet Thunder" attests to Ellington's ambitions to craft larger scores and to the
> profound contributions of his composing-arranging partner, Billy Strayhorn.
>
>
> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
> 916/ 806-9551
>
> "Jesus loves you."
> A nice gesture in church but a terrible thing to hear in a Mexican prison.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 08:00:00 -0800
> From: "Robert Ringwald"<rsr at ringwald.com>
> To: "DJML"<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Christmas with Louis Armstrong -- NY Times
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> A personal note:
>
> Shortly before the Armstrong house was opened as a museum, I had a personal tour of the Armstrong archives at Queens College. I was offered a tour of the house before it was opened, but never had a chance to
> et back to tour it.
>
> My daughter who was living in NYC at the time moved to Tinseltown so we haven?t been back to NY.
>
> Hopefully one of these days.
>
> --Bob Ringwald
>
> Home for Christmas, With the Armstrongs
> By Corey Kilgannon
> New York Times, December 4, 2012
> "Merry Christmas, everybody -- this is Satchmo," intoned the raspy voice in a living
> room in Corona, Queens, where holiday ornaments were being hung with care on Monday
> afternoon.
> One of those doing the hanging, Ricky Riccardi, pointed out, "You notice that he
> said, 'Merry Christmas, everybody,' and there's nobody there -- Louis made these
> tapes to be played post-mortem."
> Mr. Riccardi, the archivist at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, where all this was
> taking place, was referring to the many personal recordings that Armstrong made here
> in this two-story house on 107th Street in Corona, where he and his wife, Lucille,
> moved in 1943.
> This month, the museum is offering holiday tours featuring rare clips from Armstrong's
> Christmas tapes, which include the jazzman celebrating the holiday at home, as well
> as his quirky compilations of seasonal songs that Mr. Riccardi called "Louis's holiday
> mix-tapes," with artists that include Elvis, Mantovani and Mitch Miller.
> Another ornament hanger at the museum, David Reese, the museum's curator, pressed
> a button on the wall, and here came Armstrong's voice wafting through the room again,
> this time introducing a recording of "White Christmas" by the jazz singer Al Hibbler.
> Another push of a button brought the sound of Armstrong putting on a Nat "King" Cole
> record: "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth." On his tape, Armstrong
> sang along with the record by adding rhythmic punctuations ("Uh-huh!") and ad-libs
> ("Sing it, Nat!").
> Armstrong lived in his Corona house here until his death in 1971, and Mrs. Armstrong
> until her death in 1983. But the house is so meticulously preserved that it feels
> as if they've just stepped out to buy some egg nog. The holiday tour is meant to
> give visitors the feel of what it was like being home for Christmas with the Armstrongs,
> said the museum's director, Michael Cogswell, as his staff decorated.
> They had hung Mrs. Armstrong's boughs of artificial pine in the windows, and put
> her miniature Christmas tree in the dining room. These items were found in the Armstrong
> attic, along with an artificial Christmas tree that was in too poor condition to
> use. A similar one was brought in, which was now being decorated in the front window
> with ornaments that belonged to the Armstrongs' beloved next-door neighbor, Selma
> Heraldo, who died last December and left her house to the museum.
> Another audio clip played of Armstrong on "The Mike Douglas Show" talking about a
> photograph of the Armstrongs celebrating Christmas while on tour in Japan.
> Armstrong, who famously spent part of his childhood in a New Orleans orphanage, told
> his wife on their first Christmas together that he had never had his own Christmas
> tree as a boy. After that, Mrs. Armstrong was adamant about decorating the house
> for the holidays. If the Armstrongs were on tour for the holidays, they would break
> out decorations and celebrate Christmas on the road, Mr. Riccardi said.
> Armstrong makes clear his love for Christmas throughout his home recordings, including
> a two-hour-long Christmas tape that he made shortly after acquiring his first portable
> reel-to-reel tape player in 1950, Mr. Riccardi said. The museum archives of his home
> recordings, which includes roughly 750 tapes, each about two hours long, is available
> for listening by appointment at the library at Queens College.
> Armstrong kept two reel-to-reel recorders in his den, where he also meticulously
> cataloged his tapes in longhand on loose leaf paper. The press of a wall button again
> brought his voice into the room, singing a novelty number called, "Zat You, Santa
> Claus?" with lines like "I can see old / Santa in the keyhole."
> On a shelf was a 45-r.p.m. record of Armstrong reciting "The Night Before Christmas,"
> which was recorded several months before he died and was the last issued recording
> in his lifetime, Mr. Riccardi said, with more than a million copies printed. At the
> end of the famous poem, Armstrong wishes, "A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a
> good night."
> But then Armstrong, naturally, adds a line of his own: "A very good night -- that
> goes for Satchmo too."
> http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/going-home-for-christmas-with-the-armstrongs
> -30
>
>
>
> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
> 916/ 806-9551
>
> "Jesus loves you."
> A nice gesture in church but a terrible thing to hear in a Mexican prison.
>
>
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