[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 135, Issue 7

Thu Mar 6 17:01:00 PST 2014

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>   1. Sunday Arvo with New Melbourne Jazz Band (Ross Anderson)
>   2. Catherine Russell interviewed  --  Jerusalem Post,	March 3,
>      2014 (Robert Ringwald)
>   3. Re paired (jack wiard)
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> Dear Friends,
> This Sunday March 9th The New Melbourne Jazz Band will be at The Royal
> Hotel, Upper Ferntree Gully . 
> Doors open at Mid-day Band from 1pm-till-4pm.
> To enjoy great food and lots of "Fun Jazz" please phone 9758 2755 to book a
> table.
> Thank you all for your support.
> Cheers, Ross
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> www.newmelbournejazzband.com 
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> www.andersonbass.com 
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> From: "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Catherine Russell interviewed  --  Jerusalem
> 	Post,	March 3, 2014
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> Mining Jazz's Oldest Streams
> by Barry Davis
> Jerusalem Post, March 3, 2014
> Catherine Russell certainly knows from whom to gather her spiritual and creative
> energy. The 57-year-old American jazz singer, who will appear all over the country
> between March 8 and 15 as part of this year's Hot Jazz series, cites some of the
> most celebrated divas of the art form as her sources of inspiration. Vocalist Abbey
> Lincoln, the possessor of one of the most emotive and evocative voices in jazz history,
> is high on Russell's list of influences, and there is a Lincolnesque lilt to Russell's
> delivery.
> "I loved Abbey Lincoln, and I got to hear her a few times," says Russell. "She was
> really unique. It is a big compliment to be compared with her."
> The truth is, however, that Russell had plenty of inspiration much closer to home.
> Her father, Luis Russell, was the musical director for iconic trumpeter-vocalist
> and band leader Louis Armstrong; and her mother, Carline Ray, held degrees from both
> Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music and performed with the International
> Sweethearts of Rhythm, the first racially integrated all-female jazz outfit, during
> World War II.
> "My parents were pioneers in their fields," says Russell. "My dad was right at the
> beginnings of New Orleans jazz and the blues. I was listening to his music when I
> was three years old. My mother heard all those great early musicians in Harlem. She
> met [legendary singer] Billie Holiday, and she took me to see [blues singer] Alberta
> Hunter perform. I heard everyone from [modern jazz pioneer pianist] Thelonious Monk
> to [maverick saxophonist] Rahsaan Roland Kirk and [singer] Betty Carter -- everybody."
> Ivie Anderson and pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams are also important role models
> for Russell.
> Like any art form, jazz is an evolving discipline, but the leading proponents all
> talk about the need to be connected to the roots of the music in order to take it
> forward to the next stage. Russell appears to have a direct link to those roots.
> But Russell's parents were happy to allow their daughter to get into contemporary
> and other sounds, too.
> "I was never limited to one thing or another," she says. "My dad passed away when
> I was quite young, but my mother let me listen to everything -- rock 'n' roll and
> blues, and we listened to opera. We used to go the opera, and there was all kinds
> of classical music. I was exposed to everything, and I feed off everything I have
> ever heard."
> That provides Russell with a generous substratum for conveying her personal and artistic
> message.
> "It helps me tell the story of the songs without feeling limited," she says, "without
> feeling that I have to sound like this or that. I get to just express the tune at
> any particular moment. I work off the great musicians I have with me on the stage
> and just let that carry me."
> Having such an eclectic musical education has also helped Russell spread her talents
> across a very wide spectrum of artistic ventures. In addition to her own jazz work,
> which includes five CDs as leader, her CV also features stints with such pop and
> rock icons as David Bowie, Steely Dan, Jackson Browne and Paul Simon.
> "I got to go on two tours with David Bowie and be in his band for two years," explains
> Russell. "I was a big Bowie fan from the early 1970s. He's a great writer and I always
> loved his voice, so when I got the opportunity to join his band in 2002 -- I couldn't
> believe it was happening -- I dropped everything and joined him. I said, 'Yeah, I
> think I have to do this.'"
> In fact, Russell brought more than just her vocal prowess to the Bowie act.
> "The great thing about being with Bowie was that he also allowed me to play instruments
> in the shows," she recounts. "I got to play keyboards and guitars, mandolin and percussion.
> He let me express myself instrumentally as well. That was just great."
> Having all those instrumental skills at her disposal not only enabled Russell to
> play a more significant role in Bowie's shows, but it also gives a more intimate
> understanding of what goes into making a jazz gig sound right.
> "It allows me to listen to my sidemen and to learn from them because they teach me
> all the time what, for example, the tenor saxophone plays as opposed to what the
> alto sax plays and what the clarinet and trumpet play, and I get all these different
> sensibilities." she says. "And it also allows me to feel like my voice is an instrument
> as opposed to being something separate from the instrumentalists. I always feel,
> and try to sing, like I'm a part of the ensemble."
> Russell's learning curve just goes on, and she feels she has come a long way since
> her debut album, Cat, which was released eight years ago.
> "It has been a real journey, really focusing on how I want the music to sound. I
> learned this from a musician friend of mine. He told me that when you make your first
> album, you are actually learning how to make an album. I love Cat and how it came
> out, and I also hear that I was really trying to find my voice and my way through
> it," she explains.
> For Russell, finding her own voice also means feeding off her influences that come
> from the earliest forms of jazz and later musical forms.
> "Since Cat, I have been looking to move toward what I love, which is the swing era
> and primarily music from the 1930s and '40s and the blues of the 1920s but also rhythm
> and blues of the 1940s and '50s."
> All of that is present in Russell's latest release, Bring It Back. She will perform
> numbers from it at her shows here, along with some standards.
> "Since Cat, I have met more musicians, more like-minded musicians, who love playing
> the traditional styles," she says. "I have expanded my musical friends and my musical
> world."
> -30
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> 
> -Bob Ringwald K6YBV
> www.ringwald.com
> 916/ 806-9551
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> ?I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.? -Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952.
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