[Dixielandjazz] The fishy daylight of the banjoist

[Marek Boym]

In Edinburgh I've heard the Apothecaries of Jazz and the Scottish Jazz
Advocates, although I have no idea how many apothecaries or advocates were
in those bands.  Both, I believe, were led by Mike Hart.
I also heard The Batchelors of Jazz there, but those were named after their
trombone playing leader, Dave Batchelor.
Cheers

On 22 July 2015 at 03:06, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Highly amused to see the reference to Alaskan angling vacation offers as
> support for a fellow musician tourist funds sustain.
>
> Reminds me of the announcement that the accountants on bass and drums
> would on the gig about to start have not a fellow accountant but a lawyer
> on piano.  A good enough player, though not quite Dick Wellstride (who also
> had a law degree).
>
> There is the tale current among first-aid persons and medical auxiliaries
> about the jazz band of senior hospital doctors and surgeons who realised
> that someone in the front row had collapsed looking very ill.
> The music stopped and they all yelled together, "Nurse!"
>
> How a banjoist got into the angling business?  Rehearsing beside a wooded
> lake distant from civilisation, he barely noticed one of his strings
> detaching from the tuning peg and dangling into the water. Suddenly he
> almost fell in, there was a tremendous pull on the detached end of his
> string and as he lifted it he found a large  carp had attached itself to
> the string, as if hooked on a line. He landed the fish, and as soon as he
> resumed playing with the string still dangling in the water another fish
> had attached itself. This seemed to happen only when he was playing.... and
> how peaceful the eventual shoal of fish looked, having sighed their
> relieved last as their sensitive organs ceased to register the inescapable
> sounds conducted into the water by the length of banjo-string ....
>
> Oh, dear, the old ones are the worst ones, and all banjo jokes are bold
> and, add, old and bad,
> anon.
> Robert R. Calder
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