[Dixielandjazz] Kathy Stobart R.I.P.

[Marek Boym]

On 16 July 2014 02:41, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

>  Hi Marek,
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> Were you at Nice the year when a British All-Stars band was featured? Kath
> was in that as was another much missed player, trumpeter John McLevy. From
> memory I think Roy Williams was also on the band, but at this remove I
> can't remember who else was involved. Does anyone have any info on the
> personnel.
>

!977, was it?  Must have been.  I can't remember off-hand, but I believe
some of the others were Tony Coe and Lennie Felix, wearing a ragtime
professor outfit.  Can't check now - too busy working.
Cheers

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>  ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>
> *To:* Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
> *Cc:* Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 15, 2014 10:20 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Dixielandjazz] Kathy Stobart R.I.P.
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> Ken's email reminded me: I heard Kathy Stobart in Nice with a big band
> directed by Dick Hyman and recreating Ellington music.  She fit in very
> well.  The band had charts, of course, but it consisted of soloists invited
> to participate in the festival, so it was hardly well rehearsed, although
> it must have had more than the public rehearsals I attended.
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> On 15 July 2014 22:55, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>> Hi Andy,
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>>   but she was also a musical chameleon who could fit in with a Dixieland
>> ensemble just as well as with a bop band playing very complex music or in a
>> big band sax section.
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>> My impression of her playing style was that she was essentially a
>> mainstreamer who had spent many years playing bop, so her playing was
>> informed by the bop vocabulary without ever losing her hard-swinging
>> rhythmic feel.
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> I concur.
> Cheers
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