[Dixielandjazz] Joe Temperley

[Joe Carbery]

Interesting email. Robert. Can you mention any CDs on which Omer Simeon
plays baritone?
Regards,
Joe Carbery.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:52 AM, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> I posted the message below to a list with some overlapping interests.
> Very sad to see in the Scottish TV news the very big man has resumed the
> regular contact with Dill Jones which marked Dill's own last days...
> Condolences to many fans and any Temperleys.
> Robert R. Calder said,
> May 14, 2016 at 9:23 pm
> <https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/joe-temperley/#comment-94078>
> a wonderful musician, and I remember him playing an unaccompanied “Hieland
> Laddie” on soprano to the memory of Ken Gallacher, who died just before Joe
> was in Edinburgh with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
> Joe played his heartfelt goodbye to Ken months later, to a small audience,
> Ken Mathieson & quartet partners in Adelaide Place Baptist Church, Glasgow.
> His professional career had begun one street away, in the band of a
> nightclub on Sauchiehall Street, replacing men who had been called up for
> wartime military service. He never liked football, he said, so he had
> become proficient at snooker, the wee boy who doubled his wages on the
> incredulity of musicians that this kid could really have been so
> accomplished on the green baize. He was a professional reedman for over
> seventy years — and Harry Carney’s deputy for some time before great
> Harry’s demise, when the cancer treatment took that other wonderful
> baritone player away.
> The earlier baritone player he sounded most like was actually Omer Simeon,
> judging from a small number of big band recordings, though Simeon in later
> years was restricted to clarinet by his engagement with Wilbur de Paris,
> which he undertook to pay for his daughter’s education, turning down an
> offer from Ellington. Hearing a wonderful quartet set by Joe with the late
> Brian Lemon, the programme also broadcast in a different session by the
> BBC, I was thinking somebody could have mugged Joe and put a clarinet into
> his hands, for on that occasion he sounded not so much like Simeon on
> baritone, but with a breadth and flow of sound like a great New Orleans
> clarinetist. I taped the recording broadcast off the air, but there is the
> CD, and one of Joe’s best.
> It was fascinating and impressive over the years, in Glasgow and at
> Edinburgh Jazz Festivals, how Joe never sounded exactly the same, there was
> always something spontaneous. The last of his annual gigs in Glasgow was
> marred by a failure of piano, despite the best efforts of the Edinburgh
> Hank Jones, Tom Finlay, and Joe expressed a strong desire that night to
> play a lot of Ellington. As Humphrey Lyttelton said at the end of his
> memorial broadcast to Bruce Turner, “mine ears have heard the glory..”
>
>
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