[Dixielandjazz] Slim Gaillard

[Marek Boym]

He might have been outraged, but the oithers often gave erroneous answers,
and he always won anyway.  And told funny stories in between.
Cheers

On 14 August 2015 at 18:27, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:

> Humphrey Lyttelton was outraged when he found out, as the series ended,
> that the answers to the questions were given to the other participants in
> advance, with him not given them on the basis that he had the advantage of
> a better knowledge of jazz than the others. Humph told me this himself.
>
> Steve Voce
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 14 Aug 2015, at 16:03, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I may not be the greatest admirer of Slim, but does the mention of JAZZ
> > SCORE bring back memories!  What a lovely programme!
> > But if those who don't know it think it's about"score," they are greatly
> > mistaken.  Sure, there was a score at the end (Humph always won - when he
> > participated), but it really was a stand-up comedy programme.  Only
> > American participants, when there were any, would give straight answers,
> > with the exception of Bob Wilber who had bey then lived in the UK for a
> > while and got the hang of things there; the Brits mostly told funny
> > anecdotes, often without even trying to answer the question posed.
> Aker's
> > gruff comments...  And there were snatches of very good music.
> > Oh, memories, memories....
> > Cheers
> >
> > On 14 August 2015 at 03:24, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> There ought to be a recording somewhere of Slim Gaillard's appearance on
> >> JAZZ SCORE, including the magnificent monologue in response to the
> question
> >> what is a tiple. This waxed so lyrical, with the full resources of
> Slim's
> >> beautiful bass voice, that the final word "melt" did seem to flow ...A
> >> transcript of the monologue would be wonderful, although even better
> would
> >> be its encapsulation as an mp3.
> >> I could listen to it over and over...
> >>
> >> I do remember a reference to some odd behaviour in a press review of
> >> Slim's gig on a recommissioned ferryboat during a Glasgow jazz festival.
> >> The whole tale has been told by Maestro Mathieson in an earlier
> ennoblement
> >> of this page.
> >>
> >> I cannot remember where or when, but George Melly reminisced about Slim,
> >> and an extreme unworldiness amounting to being unaware quite how nasty
> >> things were during the period of factional strife in Northern Ireland.
> >> Melly had the impression that when Slim saw the armed personnel at the
> >> airport that he thought it had something to do with him. "Are they
> >> expecting a race riot?" Slim asked George as they disembarked.
> >>
> >> The TV documentary SLIM GAILLARD'S CIVILISATION came in two parts, only
> >> the first of which I remember having seen on YouTube.
> >>
> >> There was also the ostensibly unrelated documentary film marking I think
> >> the centenary or perhaps longer, of the Chelsea Arts Club, in London,
> >> echoes of Oscar Wilde and James Abbot MacNeill Whistler --  the members
> >> were sitting chatting and consuming the ceremonial but filling breakfast
> >> and sounding glum talking by and large of Slim's recent demise.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I missed his I think UK debut, at the Queen's Hall in
> >> Edinburgh, where the efficient review suggested he hadn't quite worked
> out
> >> a programme.  Alastair Robertson at Hep Records would doubtless have
> lots
> >> to tell.
> >> Another thing I would like to hear and see again is the TV commercial
> for
> >> Scottish Amicable, who invested soundly in Slim as performer.  An
> admirable
> >> straight vocal performance -- and the wonderfully spoken closing line
> "Are
> >> you an amicable man?"  Mellifluous ... and presumably for Slim modestly
> >> lucrative.
> >>
> >> all the best to Pensacola and other listmates
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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