[Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Fw: Keep (it) Swinging

Tue Sep 15 03:42:04 PDT 2015

It was, as Humph mentioned to me many times, at Birmingham Town Hall. I attended the Manchester Sports Guild every week and it was far too enlightened a place for that kind of behaviour.

Steve Voce

Steve Voce

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> On 14 Sep 2015, at 13:32, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The way I've heard the story it happened at teh manchester Sports Guild.
> Cheers
> 
>> On 14 September 2015 at 11:01, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>> Don't malign Manchester. 'The Dirty Bopper' incident happened to Bruce when he was playing in Birmingham with the Humphrey Lyttelton band.
>> 
>> Steve Voce
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> > On 14 Sep 2015, at 08:51, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > We have heard about the modern-traditional strife in the States, and the
>> > Mancunian greeted Bruce Turner  with a banner "Get out of here, dirty
>> > bopper," but it's nothing compared to the French!  And the French audiences
>> > have a reputation of equally accepting "modern" and "traditional."
>> >
>> > The English is not great, but the article is very interesting.  I assume
>> > that the author has made the translation.
>> > Enjoy
>> >
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>> > שולח: *Keep (it) Swinging, *
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>> > The 1948 Jazz Festival in Nice - # 1
>> > <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/KeepitSwinging/~3/ODrZ3zNkcvQ/the-1948-jazz-festival-in-nice-1.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>
>> >
>> > Posted: 13 Sep 2015 05:23 AM PDT
>> > The *Nice Jazz Festival* was founded by *Hugues Panassié* and lasted from
>> > the 22 to 28 February 1948. It featured a repertory of traditional jazz,
>> > swing, and bop music and was the first international jazz festival. Georg
>> > Lankester writes an extended essay about the festival. The text in Dutch
>> > was published earlier here
>> > <http://keepitswinging.blogspot.dk/2015/05/het-jazz-festival-van-1948-in-nice-part.html>,
>> > the second part in English will be published later.
>> >
>> > *A World Premiere*
>> >
>> > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vEnVcJDWuLU/VVy9L_W_jgI/AAAAAAAADSs/DJxGrNM1AZo/s1600/HuguesPanassie1.jpg>Hugues
>> > Pannasié
>> > In early 1948, when the greatest misery of the war slowly faded, president
>> > of the *Hot Club de France* organization *Hugues Panassié* had the idea to
>> > organize a jazz festival from February 22nd to 28th (- immediately after
>> > the carnival) at the Riviera in Nice. He relied on the earlier success of
>> > the film festival in Cannes and the ideas of the committee which organized
>> > festivities in the city of Nice.
>> >
>> > It would be an absolute premiere, for never before had such a festival
>> > occurred in the world. Even the Americans had not organized anything of the
>> > like.
>> >
>> > But Pannasié's initiative, announced in the magazine *"Jazz Hot"*, was
>> > primarily intended to get the traditional jazz into the spotlight. Because
>> > .... ..What was the state of art in Jazz? From the beginning of the 1940s
>> > had started a new jazz movement in the USA, the *bebop*. The swing was more
>> > or less on its peak.
>> >
>> > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2EU9PtnyZBY/VVy98pV6RcI/AAAAAAAADS0/FIt1M0PapuU/s1600/Dela0001.jpg>Charles
>> > Delaunay
>> > Secretary *Charles Delaunay* (whose efforts had resulted in *Django
>> > Reinhardt’s* fame) was particularly fascinated by the new style, unlike
>> > Panassié. Even Django liked all modern. There was thus already registered
>> > the start of a conflict within the Hot Club de France organization.
>> >
>> > While Panassié’s festival was sponsored and musicians like *Louis Armstrong*
>> > with his "All Stars" band had been invited, as well as other greats like *Earl
>> > Hines, Barney Bigard, Baby Dodds, Jack Teagarden, Rex Stewart* and *Mezz
>> > Mezzrow*, Delaunay contributed with 17 men counting on the orchestra of *Dizzy
>> > Gillespie* to participate. Bebop trumpeter Dizzy was shortly before the
>> > festival invited by Delaunay and now arose among jazz fans two camps:
>> > traditional or modern jazz.
>> > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MF9SyeM16Qs/VVy-pkE7cTI/AAAAAAAADTA/I6x06v5gWYo/s1600/dizzy%252C%2Bfrance%2B1948.JPG>Dizzy
>> > Gillespie, 1948
>> > Before he came to France, Dizzy was dogged by bad luck. In Paris, he gave a
>> > series of concerts at the famed *Salle Pleyel*. But Panassié, who attended
>> > the first concert, was extremely negative and stated that this was not
>> > jazz. On subsequent appearances there were clashes between supporters and
>> > opponents and even the gendarmerie had necessarily been involved.
>> >
>> >
>> > In the month prior to the Festival, *Django Reinhardt* played in the ABC
>> > theatre, near Les Halles. Dizzy went there one night after his performance.
>> > He found the guitarist along with bassist *Emmanuel Soudieux*. Django was
>> > positively surprised, because he had already met the trumpeter during his
>> > visit to America in 1946 and the two musicians had become good friends and
>> > admired each other.
>> > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8n_kI2JSts/VVy_bjt-VrI/AAAAAAAADTM/jetkpxyGTZY/s1600/dizzy-and-django.jpg>Dizzy
>> > Gillespie & Django Reinhardt
>> > Spontaneously that night resulted in a jam session which Soudieux
>> > remembered how great both musicians played and exchanged turns and what a
>> > pleasure they experienced doing it.
>> >
>> > *Delaunay*also arranged a concert for Dizzy in Marseille plus - as
>> > mentioned earlier - participation in the great jazz event in Nice.
>> >
>> > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UxDQAl9omxw/VVzAWGyk3WI/AAAAAAAADTY/BFGpx4FNz3g/s1600/signed%2Bfrontpage%2Bof%2Bfestival%2Bprogram%2B1948.jpg>Festival
>> > program
>> > *Jazz and Entertainment*
>> >
>> > Now something about the actual festival: To maximize the attraction of the
>> > public to this event there had been reserved rooms the first day where
>> > could be danced to the music of famous orchestras, while later that week
>> > could be attended concerts.
>> >
>> > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zGDMEnsDMzU/VVzBAqtxbkI/AAAAAAAADTg/E0GiJMW1Q-Q/s1600/hotel%2Bnegresco.jpg>Hotel
>> > Negresco
>> > It was mainly the Americans who entertained dance lovers in the large halls
>> > of the *Hotel Negresco*. But afterwards several band members joined - to
>> > the delight of many Frenchmen - jam sessions in other places, i.e. "*Monte
>> > Cristo*" or "*Christies*". Well known American musicians were treated with
>> > admiration and with all respect by the staff at Negresco. Especially the
>> > drummer of Armstrong's orchestra, *Sidney Catlett* and vocalist *Velma
>> > Middleton* led to the astonishment of the Negresco staff when ordering the
>> > most expensive drinks and meals at 4 o'clock in the morning.
>> > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X7sInQlPNkE/VVzBgcVhwaI/AAAAAAAADTo/TcvWk2Irac0/s1600/group_Hotel%2BNegresco%252C%2BNice%2B1948.JPG>Hotel
>> > Negresco: l-r: Louis Vola, Barney Bigard, Django Reinhardt, Earl Hines,
>> > Stéphane Grappelli, Sidney Catlett, Arwell Shaw
>> > And there was, of course, enormous attention and praise for *Satchmo* and
>> > to a lesser extent, the famous French artist *Boris Vian*. Nice to say is
>> > that among the celebrities were also young European jazz musicians
>> > like *Humphrey
>> > Lyttlelton* and *Toots Thielemans*, who - as we know - later would make
>> > great furor.
>> >
>> > During the "Nuit de Jazz” there was also a "Tour de Chant" with French
>> > singers *Yves Montand, Suzy Delaire* and coming from Nice *Henri Betti*;
>> > all naturally attracted extra crowds. The hall offered for this event for
>> > 600 visitors claimed 5,000 francs for each seating.
>> >
>> > *Georg Lankester*
>> >
>> > *--- *
>> > *Jo*
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