[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 126, Issue 2

Sun Jun 2 13:28:14 PDT 2013

Sure, 5-6PM OK?

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Subject: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 126, Issue 2
To: "Bruce Hall" <jazzclarinet2004 at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 12:00 PM

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Lead Sheet Request (alevy at alevy.com)
   2. Russian Lullaby (Bill Haesler)
   3. Fw: Fwd: REX ALLEN'S SWING EXPRESS? headlines Sausalito Jazz
      & Blues by the Bay, Friday June 7 (Robert Ringwald)
   4. Swing Dance Contest - 2013 Sacramento Music Festival
      (Robert Ringwald)
   5. Re: Skip the gutter (Anton Crouch)
   6. gigs (Pat Ladd)
   7. Re: gigs (Dixiejazzdata)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:30:53 -0500
From: <alevy at alevy.com>
To: "Barb Jordan" <jordan_barb at hotmail.com>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Lead Sheet Request
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I am looking for a lead sheet.
The song is "Baby Don't You Quit Now"
recorded by Pearl Bailey an Ella Fitzgerald.
Anybody?
Thanks in advance.
Al
Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Teacher and Music Prep.
Please visit me at
http://alevy.com

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 08:59:52 +1000
From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
To: Stan Brager <sbrager at verizon.net>,    Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
    <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Russian Lullaby
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Stan Brager asked:
> Benny Goodman recorded Irving Berlin's "Russian Lullaby" of September 14, 1938 with the trumpet section consisting of Harry James, Ziggy Elman and
> Chris Griffen...who plays the trumpet solo? It doesn't sound as full as I'm used to hearing from these players.

Dear Stan,
It's not a great improvisation tune, although BG, as always, does a great job. 
The trumpet contribution (not quite a solo) is too short to make much more than a statement.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR6Sf-HrnU0
My educated guess is that it is Harry James.
Compare it with his solo on its session-mate "Margie".
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55T4G9Yfc4
There is no trumpet solo on the Matha Tilton song "What Have You Got That Gets Me" from the same date.
Very kind regards,
Bill.

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 20:16:57 -0700
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] Fw: Fwd: REX ALLEN'S SWING EXPRESS? headlines
    Sausalito Jazz & Blues by the Bay, Friday June 7
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From: rcajazz1 at aol.com 
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: REX ALLEN'S SWING EXPRESS? headlines Sausalito Jazz & Blues by the Bay, Friday June 7

REX ALLEN'S five-piece SWING EXPRESS? headlines Sausalito Jazz & Blues By The Bay, Friday June 7, at Sausalito's waterfront Gabrielson Park, from 6:30 - 8PM. Admission is free. 

The date marks trombonist/vibraphonist and bandleader Allen's small Swing band's 35th anniversary of jazz festival, private party and recording engagements throughout the United States. The SWING EXPRESS is making its first appearance for Jazz & Blues By The Bay.

Joining Allen will be Swing Era singing luminary JOHNNY MARTIN, whose voice graced the original TOMMY DORSEY and BENNY GOODMAN Orchestras, and was featured for years on DANNY KAYE'S production and TV shows.

Allen fronted the TOMMY DORSEY and GENE KRUPA Orchestras, and his 14-piece REX ALLEN BIG BAND has performed three national tours, including its 75-city 1993 Salute To Glenn Miller before 160,000 Swing fans.

Joining him on the SWING EXPRESS is clarinetist/saxophonist JEFF SANFORD; Mill Valley piano legend SI PERKOFF; San Rafael bassist BOB STEELE; and drummer ED MARGOLIN.

Sausalito?s summertime Jazz & Blues by the Bay concerts have become legendary local favorites. Breathtaking views of Angel Island, San Francisco and the Bay provide the backdrop for this Friday night celebration at Gabrielson Park in downtown Sausalito. Turn toward the water onto Anchor St. from Bridgeway, at the Sausalito Ferry Terminal.

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 20:24:25 -0700
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] Swing Dance Contest - 2013 Sacramento Music
    Festival
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8mvV6qBlo

-Bob Ringwald
www.ringwald.com
Amateur (ham) Radio Operator K6YBV
916/ 806-9551

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting,
possibly because the person who was supposed to supply them with a
melody never showed up. -Dave Berry.

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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:07:54 +1000
From: Anton Crouch <anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au>
To: Gerard Bielderman <gerard.bielderman at telfort.nl>
Cc: DJM List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Skip the gutter
Message-ID: <51AAFD5A.2040202 at optusnet.com.au>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hello all

A very good question!

Eric Townley does not list the expression in either of his /Tell your 
story/ volumes, so one has to turn to dictionaries.

Partridge (/Dictionary of slang/) gives it as meaning "houpla!" or "over 
she goes!" and the OED, for "houp-la", has "an exclamation accompanying 
a quick or sudden movement". The only reference to "skip the gutter" in 
the OED is in the definition of "skip" as "to jump or leap lightly over 
something".

Either way, it could be a description of Armstrong's playing.

All the best,
Anton

On 1/06/2013 23:26, Gerard Bielderman wrote:
> Can anybody explain the meaning of the Armstrong title SKIP THE GUTTER?

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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 03:09:52 -0700
From: "Pat Ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
To: "dixieland jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] gigs
Message-ID: <066486F83EFD479B84D229794D153CCC at patb7aee10db77>
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Hi,
There are often posts bemoaning the lack of music available in a particular area.

There was the annual village  Music Festival in the field next to my house yesterday From around 10 in the morning until midnight. There was a constant stream of local bands/groups.soloists performing all day. Acoustic in the afternoon. Electric in the evening. Some very talented people,some clunkers. Not a whiff of OKOM  all day.Must have been 20 or so performances.
The local weekly newspaper lists 26 gigs scheduled in the next week within a radius of 10 miles. Again no OKOM
Some of these are folk, one or two blues, too many tribute bands although some are very good.Only one disco. Most of these gigs are in pubs and play to reasonably size audiences.
I know there are one or two OKOM gigs around which are not listed in the paper because,I suspect, some snotty nosed kid makes up the reports and he has never heard of Jazz and doesn`t consider it worth reporting.
Seems there must be opportunities to get in on some of these venues.Perhaps we just don`t push hard enough. When I am in a pub I often ask the landlord if they have any jazz nights. There is  no demand for that sort of music is often the reply. That immediately opens up the response, Have you tried?. Why not give it a go?
I got my band into a pub which had no musical history at all on the promise that we would play for our beer once a week for a month and then let the landlord decide.
That resulted in a 7year gig, every Tuesday night and persisted through 3 changes of landlord.

Opportunities exist but they take chasing down

Pat

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:47:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dixiejazzdata <dixiejazzdata at aol.com>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] gigs
Message-ID: <8D02DD052D8882C-1EB4-4E740 at webmail-d284.sysops.aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Well said Pat:   Gigs are where you find them or Make them, that big ole yellow Union Gig Bus broke down decades ago and ain't coming by anybody's house to get them and take 'em to a paid gig with free Beer, Food and Wimmin'...

There is always good work for GOOD  non clunker bands if they will go knock on some doors and get it.

And there are lots of punters out there looking just as hard to find some Live Jazz, where ever you get a gig it needs to be promoted and publicized, by the venue and the band to attract the punters,  if they don;t know you are there they ain't coming to hear ya.  And you need to start the publicity about two months in advance if possible because people have many choices and other life obligations to attend to and are not generally available to run out and hear you with a one or two day notice.

But heck we have said all this on this list  many times before and very few pay any attention to it, but Those that do are working a lot more than those who don't do it.   

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Ladd <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
To: B.B. Buffington <dixiejazzdata at aol.com>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 3:24 am
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] gigs

Hi,
There are often posts bemoaning the lack of music available in a particular 
area.

There was the annual village  Music Festival in the field next to my house 
yesterday From around 10 in the morning until midnight. There was a constant 
stream of local bands/groups.soloists performing all day. Acoustic in the 
afternoon. Electric in the evening. Some very talented people,some clunkers. Not 
a whiff of OKOM  all day.Must have been 20 or so performances.
The local weekly newspaper lists 26 gigs scheduled in the next week within a 
radius of 10 miles. Again no OKOM
Some of these are folk, one or two blues, too many tribute bands although some 
are very good.Only one disco. Most of these gigs are in pubs and play to 
reasonably size audiences.
I know there are one or two OKOM gigs around which are not listed in the paper 
because,I suspect, some snotty nosed kid makes up the reports and he has never 
heard of Jazz and doesn`t consider it worth reporting.
Seems there must be opportunities to get in on some of these venues.Perhaps we 
just don`t push hard enough. When I am in a pub I often ask the landlord if they 
have any jazz nights. There is  no demand for that sort of music is often the 
reply. That immediately opens up the response, Have you tried?. Why not give it 
a go?
I got my band into a pub which had no musical history at all on the promise that 
we would play for our beer once a week for a month and then let the landlord 
decide.
That resulted in a 7year gig, every Tuesday night and persisted through 3 
changes of landlord.

Opportunities exist but they take chasing down

Pat
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