[Dixielandjazz] Marian McPartland
Marek Boym
marekboym at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 12:04:10 PST 2012
Gee, Mike,
Couldn't agree more!
I heard Marian McPartland in Nice in the mid-70's, with no
expectations, as she was usually referred to as "modern." Wow! She
was wonderful, better than any other pianist save Teddy Wilson on that
Pianorma show!
Cheers
On 23 December 2012 23:16, <vaxtrpts at aol.com> wrote:
>
> There is also a documentary movie of the same name. My band played for the presentation of it at the Prescott (Arizona) Film Festival. We played before and after the film. Nice crowd there for it. It is a fantastic film and I'm sure - like the book - really shows her wonderful and important contributions to jazz music. Even though she hosted Piano Jazz for all those years, I think she never really got her "due" from many critics. I, for one, certainly enjoyed her playing as well as her abilities as an interviewer and her lovely way of working with all those great musicians who performed with her on her show.
>
> Mike Vax
> Friends of Big Band Jazz, Prescott Jazz Summit,
> Stan Kenton Alumni Band
> www.mikevax.net
> www.bigbandjazz.net
> www.prescottjazz.com
> www.getzen.com
>
>
>
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> 1. Woody Herman documentary reviewed - Hartford Courant
> (Robert Ringwald)
> 2. Marian McPartland book reviewed (Robert Ringwald)
> 3. Re: Marian McPartland (Marek Boym)
> 4. Art Jacob's New Year's eve story (Henry C. Mason)
> 5. Re: Marian McPartland: in person (Art Wood)
> 6. Remembering Christmas is On Tonight - Sacramento Roseville CA
> Area (Robert Ringwald)
> 7. Question about sound... (Steve Heist)
> 8. Re: Question about sound... (david richoux)
> 9. Re: Woody Herman documentary reviewed - Hartford Courant
> (Steve Voce)
> 10. FW: Question about sound... (Jim Kashishian)
> 11. Impending doom (Steve Voce)
> 12. Re: Impending doom (Allan Brown)
> 13. "Vitaphone Varieties" reviewed (Robert Ringwald)
> 14. Re: Impending doom (Marek Boym)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:58:46 -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] Woody Herman documentary reviewed - Hartford
> Courant
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> Woody Herman documentary reviewed
> by Owen McNally
> Hartford Courant, December 2, 2012
> Any fan of the legendary bandleader Woody Herman is sure to be pleased with
> receiving
> the interview-packed and music-laced DVD documentary tribute, "Woody Herman:
> Blue
> Flame" (Jazzed Media, $18.99).
> Right up until the time Herman died at 74 in 1987, he was still grinding it out
> on
> the road, leading, singing, playing clarinet and saxophone with his talent-laden
> band, a resilient orchestra that in its remarkable half-century run under his
> wise
> guidance had produced a lode of great music.
> A celebration of what would have been Herman's centennial year in 2013, this
> loving
> homage serves rarely seen slices of vintage musical selections, including some
> rocking
> appearances on, of all things, "The Ed Sullivan Show." It presents an array of
> insightful
> interviews with many great Herman alumni, including saxophonist Joe Lovano and
> vibraphonist
> Terry Gibbs, plus commentary from such jazz historians as Dan Morgenstern and
> Dr.
> Herbert Wong.
> What the cascade of interviews reveals is Herman's amazing ability to somehow
> always
> get the best out of his cast of often brilliant but sometimes drug-addicted or
> booze-addled
> geniuses who brought great glory to his early, historic Thundering Herds. You
> get
> an insider's point of view, including differing opinions on which of the many
> evolving
> incarnations of the Herman band was the all-time greatest. It sounds like
> knowledgeable
> Yankee fans mulling over which championship lineup was the greatest for the
> Bronx
> Bombers.
> There are also tragic notes, including Herman's profound tax woes of nearly $2
> million,
> with the IRS breathing down his neck as he virtually works himself to death on
> the
> road, perilously touring, relentlessly but necessarily into old age and,
> ultimately,
> sickness unto death.
> What's irrepressibly redeeming, however, is Herman's vibrant legacy of joyful
> orchestral
> jazz. That and the road hero's unshakeable certainty that his one true calling
> in
> life was to make great, swinging big band music, no matter how crushing his
> fiscal
> or physical problems could be.
> -30-
>
>
>
> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
> 916/ 806-9551
>
> "The vote is the instrument and symbol of a free person's power to make a
> fool of himself, and a wreck of his country." -Ambrose Bierce
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:05:57 -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] Marian McPartland book reviewed
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> Marian McPartland Bio Hits All the Right Notes
> "Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian
> McPartland,"
> by Paul de Barros. St. Martin's Press, 496 pp., $35.
> by Gene Seymour
> Newsday, December 21, 2012
> Paradise may be a great place to live, but the implicit lack of conflict makes
> it
> a lousy home for a dramatist. In similar fashion, it's challenging for any
> biographer
> to take on the life of an exemplary human being and fashion a compelling story
> out
> of it.
> Consider the case of Marian McPartland, pianist, composer and longtime host of
> NPR's
> peerless "Piano Jazz" series. For those who know McPartland only through her
> recorded,
> live and broadcast appearances, the encomium bestowed by composer Alec Wilder in
> a letter she saved for years pretty much nails her down:
> "You are very talented, you are witty, warm, good, ethical, tender, tolerant,
> angry,
> responsible, elegant, stylish, strong, steadfast, womanly, understanding,
> romantic,
> demanding, and sensitive, civilized, a trustworthy, generous, indeed a sensible
> example
> of the potential splendor of human kind at its best."
> So we're done here, right? Not by a long shot, thanks to Paul de Barros'
> engrossing
> and illuminating biography, "Shall We Play That One Together?," its title a
> direct
> reference to the query she asked of Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles,
> Esperanza
> Spalding, Elvis Costello, Tony Bennett, Norah Jones, Steely Dan (!), Clint
> Eastwood
> (!!) and many other guests on "Piano Jazz" over more than 30 years. (McPartland,
> 94, retired as host last year, though she remains the show's artistic director.)
> De Barros, jazz critic and pop music editor for The Seattle Times, approaches
> McPartland's
> long, rich life as both a knowledgeable fan and an evenhanded observer. She was
> born
> in Slough, England, in 1918 "with perfect pitch -- the ability to pick out any
> note
> she heard and play it, the way other people might identify a color or shape."
> This
> gift served her through her classical music education at London's Guildhall
> School
> of Music, and after she dropped out to tour with a vaudeville act that would
> eventually
> entertain troops in World War II Europe -- where she met Jimmy McPartland.
> The Chicago-born cornetist was an infantryman stationed in Belgium when he met
> Marian
> during her USO tour in 1944. They married in Germany and, upon returning to the
> United
> States, he became her guide to the still-burgeoning jazz scene in Chicago and
> then
> New York.
> Theirs was, putting it mildly, a rocky relationship. Jimmy drank too much. She
> tried
> to make him stop. Her reputation gradually matched and soon exceeded his at
> nightclubs
> throughout Manhattan. Her most significant gig was a 12-year residency at the
> long-defunct
> Hickory House on fabled 52nd Street, where her drummer -- and longtime lover --
> was
> the rhythmically resourceful Joe Morello.
> With poise, de Barros recounts the particulars of her affair with Morello and,
> for
> that matter, the marriage to McPartland, which officially ended in a 1970
> divorce.
> Their relationship, however, endured as they lived together in Bellmore and
> remarried
> shortly before Jimmy's death from lung cancer in 1991. Their original divorce,
> as
> Marian often quipped, "was a failure."
> Such is an example of Marian McPartland's shrewd, self-deprecating wit, on
> display
> throughout "Shall We Play That One Together?," as are her flashes of pique and
> bruised
> vanity. (Regular listeners of "Piano Jazz" might be surprised to find that the
> gracious
> host "could, and often did, swear like a sailor.") The overall portrait de
> Barros
> presents is one of an open-minded, openhearted artist who struggled over
> seemingly
> improbable circumstances, not the least being gender prejudice, to continue
> evolving,
> growing and giving back as much inspiration as she reaped.
> -30-
>
>
> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
> 916/ 806-9551
>
> "The vote is the instrument and symbol of a free person's power to make a
> fool of himself, and a wreck of his country." -Ambrose Bierce
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:26:01 +0200
> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Marian McPartland
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> Isn't it strange that Marian McPartland got no entry in either John
> Chilton' "Who Is Who in Jazz" nor in his "Who Is Who of British Jazz?"
> She's mentioned in passim under Jimmy McPartland as Marian Page whom
> he married, but nothing about her illustrious career.
> Cheers
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:59:56 -0500
> From: "Henry C. Mason" <hmncro at gmail.com>
> To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Art Jacob's New Year's eve story
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> Hi Listmates,
>
> Every year I put this story up on my website about a "modern" New Years
> Eve. This was done by my friend Art Jacob now 87 who played bass in my
> band for many years in Atlanta. One year, right after New Year's Eve I
> got a letter from him containing this "review" . When I stopped laughing I
> typed it up for our website and every year I repost it in Art's honor. I
> just read it over and thought you guys might enjoy it.
>
> *
> By Art Jacob
>
>
> I guess its the old fire horse in me but there's no way I can hit the sack
> before midnight on New Year's Eve and I always get such a hoot out of
> listening to some rock band just prior to the drop of the peach.
>
> This year some ditzy blonde was skipping back and forth in front of a
> couple of guitars and drums...apparently this was her sole talent. They
> dropped the peach, which actually looked more like a Squash with a thyroid
> problem , and that instant the guitars set off on "Auld Lang Syne" in more
> or less one key and the blonde kept cavorting back and forth while
> screaming the lyrics in ANOTHER key. This went on for an interminable time
> until they got to what should have been the bridge, but no one would
> venture into this uncharted area so they all just tapered off to nothing
> one by one.
>
> It takes a pile of nerve to tackle an old folk song and screw it up that
> badly. New Year's eve used to be the climax to a musical year, now it's
> just a hollow mockery. In more than 50 years, big and small I've never
> heard such a mess in my life . Truly this was a golden moment in musical
> history.
>
> Art Jacob is a retired Atlanta bassist who has played many New Year's Eve
> gigs. He has settled comfortably into his new role of music critic.
> *
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:03:49 -0800
> From: Art Wood <artwoo at aol.com>
> To: Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Marian McPartland: in person
> Message-ID: <28a3ff69-07ac-4a40-8879-0c317f3338e5 at email.android.com>
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> Hi: Marion McPartland is a treasure.
> A few years ago she performed at Yoshi's in Oakland.
> The highlight of that night went like this: "I think I'll play a little song
> Jimmy taught me which he learned from Bix...it goes like this"
> Then she began playing "Singing the Blues."
> A wave of emotion hit me: She was offering a direct link from Bix to the
> audience through her heart and hands.
> That was a powerful musical moment.
> Merry Christmas.
> Art Wood
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:58:24 -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] Remembering Christmas is On Tonight -
> Sacramento Roseville CA Area
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>
> List Mates,
>
>
>
> If any of you are in the Sacramento, Northern California area, don?t miss this
> event.
>
>
>
> --Bob Ringwald
>
>
>
>
>
> Remembering Christmas is on tonight, Saturday Dec 22. We have been waiting to
> get the word due to the weather and yippee, we will be there with bells on, 6:00
> ? 8:00 PM. Hope you will be there too.
>
>
>
> We, the Fulton Street Jazz Band played for this event last week and it was
> great!
>
>
>
> Here is some info about the event.
>
>
>
> Free, outdoor 1940s era Christmas village, open 5:00 ? 9:00 PM
>
> Think Main Street Disneyland meets South Lake Tahoe.
>
> This is a full scale village with everything from an old fashioned bakery, to a
> vintage
>
> theatre with an outer kiosk to purchase popcorn and tickets, to a 30 foot
> Christmas
>
> tree and Christmas
>
> tree lot, to street carolers, to coffee shops, to live snow falling, and even to
>
> a full light show that runs every hour as the entire place lights up in sequence
> to songs.
>
> The Fulton Street Jazz Band will perform on the Main Stage Friday Dec 14 and Sat
> Dec 22 6:00 ? 8:00 PM.
>
> Everyone?s invited. Bring the whole family.
>
> www.christmasremembered.org
>
> Bridgeway Christian Church
>
> 3735 Placer Corporate Dr.
>
> Rocklin, CA 95765
>
> 916/ 769-4001
>
>
>
> Here is a note about the event posted on a Dixieland Jazz Mailing list after our
> last performance.
>
>
>
> ???
>
> My wife and I attended this event last night in Rocklin, California,
>
> primarily to hear Fulton Street. (Mr. Ringwald had sent an email about the
>
> free event.) It turned out to be a marvelous re-creation of a 40's main
>
> street, with various "stores", refreshments, and all of the participants
>
> dressed in 40's-era clothing. The chestnuts were hand-roasted over open
>
> fires, and were perfectly cooked. Fulton Street was great and added hugely
>
> to the atmosphere. Kids (little ones) got in front of the stage and danced
>
> with abandon to the beat. One couple in 40's clothing performed entire
>
> dance routines from that era. And the kids got their parents out dancing
>
> with them. Fulton Street played a variety of Christmas and traditional
>
> numbers, all of which the audience loved. Thank you to Mr. Ringwald for
>
> letting us know about this opportunity, and kudos to the entire band for the
>
> brightness they brought to this marvelous event...
>
> ???
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
> 916/ 806-9551
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:41:30 -0500
> From: Steve Heist <steveheist at videotron.ca>
> To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Question about sound...
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>
> Hi gang and Merry Christmas,
> I'm going to play a gig on New Year's Eve - just solo piano (it's at a fancy
> spa in Northern Quebec). The room is small (50 to 100 people) and I'm
> wondering what kind of reverb is best on acoustic piano sound (no vocal
> involved)??? When I sing, I just put a plate reverb on my voice and have
> the piano with no reverb which works well, but I could use some help here...
> especially from Kash... I know he knows a lot about sound reinforcement...
> ANY help will be greatly appreciated and thanks!
> ALL the Best,
> Steve "Stubby" Heist
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:57:27 -0800
> From: david richoux <domitype at gmail.com>
> To: Steve Heist <steveheist at videotron.ca>, DJML Jazz
> <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Question about sound...
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> I would say keep it dry first - if the piano is good quality and in tune,
> there is no need for any effects.
> If it is a dog, don't go overboard! (It will just get muddy, especially in
> a small room.)
>
> Dave Richoux
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Steve Heist <steveheist at videotron.ca>wrote:
>
>> Hi gang and Merry Christmas,
>> I'm going to play a gig on New Year's Eve - just solo piano (it's at a
>> fancy spa in Northern Quebec). The room is small (50 to 100 people) and
>> I'm wondering what kind of reverb is best on acoustic piano sound (no vocal
>> involved)??? When I sing, I just put a plate reverb on my voice and have
>> the piano with no reverb which works well, but I could use some help
>> here... especially from Kash... I know he knows a lot about sound
>> reinforcement... ANY help will be greatly appreciated and thanks!
>> ALL the Best,
>> Steve "Stubby" Heist
>>
>>
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>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:43:33 +0000
> From: Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com>
> To: Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Woody Herman documentary reviewed -
> Hartford Courant
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> I reviewed this for Jazz Journal:
>
> WOODY HERMAN
> BLUE FLAME
> A film by Graham Carter (110 minutes)
>
> Jazzed Media DVD JM9005
>
> It's some time since I enjoyed two hours so much. Graham Carter's film
> of Woody Herman's career succeeds on so many counts. It sits beside the
> few outstanding films about bandleaders -- one thinks of notable
> depictions of Shaw, Quincy Jones and Teagarden. If only someone could do
> the same for Basie and some of the others....
> The opening titles include a copious list of chapters, and it's
> because the story flows so smoothly between these chapters (from the mid
> '30s to the mid '80s) that one sits spellbound from the opening to the
> close. Along the way Herman's character is rounded out as his sidemen
> confirm that he was a kind and generous man, a vital link between his
> musicians and their audience, an imaginative band leader, an unsurpassed
> and instinctive editor of his writers' works, a superb alto player, a
> much better clarinettist than you might think and a jazzman whose
> mission in life was to give a platform to new and young talent. Not much
> for one man, eh?
> The work that Carter has put in to amassing and editing his material
> is remarkable and one might think that a large production team has been
> involved. However, Mr Carter has form. His were the vivid 'A Life in E
> Flat' on Phil Woods and 'Against the Tide' for Bud Shank. He also
> created one that I haven't seen - 'Artistry in Rhythm' - to cover you
> know who.
> He's been assiduous in interviewing anyone that's left, and that
> means 35 musicians and historians like Dan Morgenstern and Bill Clancy
> (Clancy wrote the finest book on Herman). But for me the great pleasure
> is seeing close up on camera people like Ralph Burns, Phil Wilson, Nat
> Pierce and Med Flory. There are also many clips from interviews with
> Woody himself over the years. The voluble Terry Gibbs is a valuable
> contributor and there's much wisdom from a variety of people including
> Bill Holman, John Fedchock and so on.
> The collection of music is good, with much reliance on a
> comprehensive full colour 1976 television broadcast from Iowa. This has
> a fine Four Brothers and Alan Broadbent's remarkable 12-minute
> exposition of Blues in the Night (nobody should need reminding what a
> fine singer Woody was). There's a vintage Lemon Drop by the Second Herd
> with Gibbs and a splendid I've Got News for You. The First Herd was
> sadly never properly done on film, so there's no Flip Phillips and no
> more than a mention of the Candolis. One brief Bill Harris solo and
> mentions only of Fontana and Urbie Green because of course the Third
> Herd didn't get much on camera either. Never mind, the whole thing has
> tremendous atmosphere and there's enough typical Herman music to make
> sure that the time flies by.
> Incidentally the 'includes almost 400 rare photographs' claim
> mightn't sound sensational. But the truth is these pictures are
> absorbing and, surprisingly to someone who's been a lifelong fan of
> Woody's, they are largely new to me. They have also been beautifully
> reproduced.
> Most importantly, this is the kind of DVD that you'll want to watch
> again...and again.
> Steve Voce
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:40:31 +0100
> From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] FW: Question about sound...
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>
>
>>and I'm wondering what kind of reverb is best on acoustic piano sound (no
> vocal involved)??? Steve "Stubby" Heist
>
>
> Steve, actually, I know little about "sound reinforcement" with editing &
> mastering being my forte. However, all that is needed in audio is common
> sense & decent ears! We've all got both, but some do those things better
> than others!
>
> I wouldn't use any reverb on the piano usually, but if you do, you should
> make sure you don't notice it. Your question then will be "why bother if it
> is not noticeable?" Reverb should be used to help the sound, but if it
> becomes a sound in itself, it is an "effect".
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:38:12 +0000
> From: Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com>
> To: Jazz Journal <editor at jazzjournal.co.uk>,
> Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com, duke-lym list <Duke-lym at concordia.ca>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Impending doom
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> To-day is my 79th birthday.
> I've been writing the jazz obituaries for The Independent for 25 years
> and two months.
> It's time I was taken out and shot.
> I'm retiring today.
>
> Steve Voce
>
>
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> Message: 12
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:37:12 +0000
> From: Allan Brown <allanbrown at dsl.pipex.com>
> To: stevevoce at virginmedia.com
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> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Impending doom
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> Steve, I appreciate that you're making more time for your cat Daniel. I suspect
> the true reason for your retirement though, is to take control of your team's
> reigns - someone's got to do it!
>
> Enjoy your retirement.
>
> All the best,
>
> Allan
>
>> To-day is my 79th birthday.
>> I've been writing the jazz obituaries for The Independent for 25 years and two
> months.
>> It's time I was taken out and shot.
>> I'm retiring today.
>>
>> Steve Voce
>>
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> Message: 13
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:49:37 -0800
> From: "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] "Vitaphone Varieties" reviewed
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> Vitaphone Varieties: Vol. 2 (Warner Archive)
> by Mick LaSalle
> San Francisco Chronicle, December 23, 2012
> Starting in 1926, a year before "The Jazz Singer," Warner Bros. started
> producing
> a series of sound shorts, usually musical or comedy acts, mostly taken from the
> vaudeville
> stage. These shorts have been difficult to see and much coveted by aficionados.
> Last
> year saw the release of a magnificent four-disc collection of these shorts,
> "Vitaphone
> Varieties." Now comes "Vitaphone Varieties: Vol. 2," a two-disc collection of 35
> short films, which originally played in theaters in the years 1927 through 1931
> and
> haven't been seen since. So you're really seeing some kind of miraculous
> resurrection,
> and I can't help but wonder, watching these films, what the people in them would
> think of their being seen again, now in people's homes, over 80 years later.
> Most
> of these people were not stars. Take the hula girl who sits off to the front
> left
> in the 1927 film "Hawaiian Nights." Because she's not an actress, she's not
> acting;
> she's just being herself, and being herself, she seems like any 19-year-old girl
> today. If she were alive in 2012, she'd be 104, which means she is almost
> certainly
> dead, but whatever became of her? What was her life like? These are the things
> you
> think when you watch the films in this set. However, the shorts are much better
> in
> the first Vitaphone collection. Many of the films in the new collection are from
> later in the Vitaphone era, and as such they're more polished, more professional
> and less interesting. There are too many shorts of orchestras just sitting there
> playing, and too much Edgar Bergen. If you are a Vitaphone completist, by all
> means
> get this. But if you want to have the ideal Vitaphone immersion, stick with the
> earlier
> collection.
> -30-
>
>
> -Bob Ringwald
> www.ringwald.com
> Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
> 916/ 806-9551
>
> "The vote is the instrument and symbol of a free person's power to make a
> fool of himself, and a wreck of his country." -Ambrose Bierce
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> Message: 14
> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:42:15 +0200
> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: stevevoce at virginmedia.com
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> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Impending doom
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> Retirement is just a beginning!
> Besides, why shot? Why not go to the ice desert like the Inuit?
> You'll have more time for music, not only for the cat.
> And mazal tov (literally - good luck, but that's what we here in Isrel
> say instead of "happy birthday.").
>
> On 23 December 2012 11:38, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>>
>> To-day is my 79th birthday.
>> I've been writing the jazz obituaries for The Independent for 25 years and two
> months.
>> It's time I was taken out and shot.
>> I'm retiring today.
>>
>> Steve Voce
>>
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