[Dixielandjazz] Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen

[Marek Boym]

The Leningrad Dixieland Band (simply "Leningradskiy Dixieland" in
Russian visited this country twice: Having attended several shows each
time, I have not found it sounding like Kenny Ball.  I have also
purchased all the CDs it offered, + one LP at a second hand store, and
haven't found them sounding like Ball either.
Cheers

On 26 January 2012 05:11, Dick Baker <djml at dickbaker.org> wrote:
> Kenny Ball made me a jazz fan!
>
> I was a dumb-ass high school kid (a redundant formulation, I fear--is there
> any other kind?) when his "Midnight in Moscow" elbowed its way into the
> top-40 AM radio stations and thus into my consciousness.  I liked it so much
> that I dashed out and bought the "Midnight in Moscow" LP as well as another
> he released in 1962, "It's Trad."  I loved them, but didn't have a chance to
> follow up because I soon was off to the Air Force and then to college.  The
> first dixieland music I ever heard live was in Leningrad in 1970, where I
> was a student at Leningrad State (good ol' LSU).  I saw that the Leningrade
> Dixieland Jazz Band was playing at the Estrada Teatr, so off I went--where I
> was amazed to find that they sounded just like Kenny Ball!
>
> Many years later, after many more trips to the Soviet Union and
> acquaintanceships with Soviet jazzmen, I learned that for all practical
> purposes, dixieland jazz was introduced to the Soviet Union by Kenny Ball on
> his trips there in the late '50s and early '60s.  The Leningrad band
> sprouted from that seed, as did a couple of bands in Moscow.
>
>
>> From: Gluetje1 at aol.com
>>
>>
>> Found this on my Facebook page along with a quip that England sent the
>> Beatles over here and kept the good stuff for themselves.
>>
>> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoD5XB2eEc&feature=share_
>> (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aoD5XB2eEc&feature=share)
>>
>> Ginny
>
>
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>     Dick Baker
>  djml at dickbaker.org
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