[Dixielandjazz] Slim Gaillard

[Marek Boym]

Weren't we lucky to have access to the beeb?  Oh, BBC for the
non-cognoscenti.
The broadcast were available in very good quality, and I'd almost always
run away from the office with a small portable radio to listen to that one
and to "Jazz for the Asking," a request programme which, as long as Peter
Clayton was alive, and then - with Digby Fairweather - played mostly OKOM.
Later it was practically killed by a new editor-announcer who broadcast
mostly modern music, not addressing most of the programme's listeners.
Those were the days (probably because we were so much younger then)!
Cheers

On 14 August 2015 at 21:31, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:

> The JAZZ SCORE program sounds great—wish we’d had it in the States. I
> missed out on that, and on a lot of live jazz beyond New Orleans during my
> youth. Because of the laws against integrated performers on stage and the
> lack of decent facilities for black artists in the the Deep South, we
> weren’t on the tour stops for many bands and singers until the early/mid
> sixties, when Al Belletto at the Playboy and AL Hirt at his club had
> integrated bands and imported national stars into the clubs. Prior to that,
> the Jim Crow laws were often ignored by musicians, sometimes with humorous,
> sometimes bloody, consequences. You listmates elsewhere lived in the more
> accepting environments than were found anywhere in the U.S., and reaped
> great benefits. Plus, the popular trad revival in the US had faded by the
> mid fifties, overtaken by R&B and rock, but was kept alive, as I
> understand, in England and elsewhere. Not until Preservation Hall in 1961
> and the marching band revival that followed did earlier jazz forms get wide
> attention again, beyond individuals like Fountain and Hirt. Interwoven
> ironies.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2015, at 12:33 PM, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I forgot to include in my rhapsody over Slim's rhapsody over the tiple
> that its magnificence was immediately recognised.
> > As soon as Slim had ended his description of the balmy  scene, where the
> music and atmosphere was such that the people present would   M E L T   the
> chairman of this magnificent neo-quiz (whose real purpose was to elicit
> comic stories, banter and reminiscences) the
> journalist-novelist-saxophonist Benny Green awarded in a loud voice
> >
> > ELEVEN POINTS!
> > A modest award for a monologue of such transcendent glory!I also recall
> that Slim did disappoint people by failure to recognise the alto saxophone
> of Ernie Henry.
> >
> > Vout-O'Rooney!
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