[Dixielandjazz] Graham Tayar RIP

[Marek Boym]

Sorry to learn of Tayar's passing.  The Couch End was a really good band -
I have a record of Ian Christie playing with it.  Courtesy of Jazzology, as
what other label would issue such a record (of course, there is also Stomp
Off).
Blessed be his memory

On 9 August 2016 at 16:43, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:

> DJML and friends
> A fellow acquaintance of the leader and pianist of the Crouch End All
> Stars has told me (by e-mail, and from a current location in New Orleans --
> sic! -- to where I have copied this) of Graham's recent death. See below
> for link to Guardian obit by one of his progeny.
>
> Lovely man, Graham, some years back cooked a brace of haggis I had left
> with a friend for the impending Burns anniversary celebration, and rather
> than jazz had endless rugby songs from said friend and the fellow
> Caledonian and guest Nicol Williamson (of stage and screen fame).
>
> Graham maintained that he had formed the Crouch End ensemble consequent to
> the cajolings of his old friend Wally Fawkes, to be a band with or within
> which Wally could play.  The Lytteltonian parallel continued when rather
> than supposedly existing as a band with which Wally could perform it became
> one with which Ian Christie performed (same sequence in which the two
> clarinetists were with Humphrey Lyttelton.  Graham had his reminiscences of
> others sometime happily prominent, Bruce Turner sending up our Scottish
> hero Sandy Brown, when Sandy demonstrated, not that bebop harmonies were
> horrible nonsense (some would agree with him) but that his own ear was
> tuned to something different. Bruce parodying Sandy travestying Bop, was
> how Graham referred to it.
> "Dear Bruce," he actually said.
> One of our listmates tells me Tayar means traveller, and Graham had on his
> wall a certificate or permit issued to one of his ancestors the century
> before last, licensing trade on the Mediterranean. The Guardian obituary
> provides a little more, and Wally is recognisable to eye and ear on the
> YouTube clip,
>
> Robert R. Calder
>
> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
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> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
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> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
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> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvrHPSe0MG0
> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
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> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
> https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary
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> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
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> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
> <https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/08/graham-tayar-obituary>
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