[Dixielandjazz] Marian McPartland
Jim Hillesheim
jwh66047 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 17:02:51 PST 2012
Art,
Can you fill us, or at least me, in on the "bad deeds"? I know their music -- well, Bechet's mainly, but obviously not their lives.
Jim
Lawrence, Kansas
On Dec 25, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Art Wood <artwoo at aol.com> wrote:
>
> To Marek:
>
> My opinion is that any musician's character is reflected in his performance. Marian McPartland is a gracious and warm hearted person, therefore her interpretation of music flows from her good nature.
>
> I supposed that a contrary case could be made for musicians who have committed bad deeds, such as Sidney Bechet or Spade Cooley but have produced great music.
>
> Art
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: art wood <artwoo at aol.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 12:14 pm
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Marian McPartland
>
>
> 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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>> Sent: Sun, Dec 23, 2012 1:04 pm
>> Subject: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 120, Issue 29
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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)
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <0EEF87743CE94829B856ACD3DCF0FFB6 at BobPC>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <48B5B200FE61477580D6BD89C6FFB85E at BobPC>
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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
>> Message-ID:
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> 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
>> Message-ID:
>> <CAG6NOK9PQH4fx4WTVFNQQrqx6rKDnRh15vB-uoetdoeonpXqbA at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> 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>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <53BCCDF27594449AB6BDC86A63DC245B at BobPC>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> 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...
>> Message-ID: <9D2CB33A309849B7A3026ECE41B0D74F at SteveHeistPC>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed;
>> reply-type=original
>>
>> 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...
>> Message-ID:
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>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> 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
>> Message-ID: <50D6D245.5080903 at virginmedia.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> 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...
>> Message-ID: <CDFBF728F2ED4C8A82E708EE7BE44B03 at JIM>
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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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> 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>
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 12
>> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:37:12 +0000
>> From: Allan Brown <allanbrown at dsl.pipex.com>
>> To: stevevoce at virginmedia.com
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> 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>
>> To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> 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
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> 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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