[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 176, Issue 11
bass for Ever
bass4art at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 12:12:01 EDT 2017
Well, I have a Bachelor in Music, studied both tuba and upright bass, on
the Tuba I mostly played B flats and C tubas, but I do play trumpet as
well. I know about adding three sharps then playing the E flat tuba bass
clef like reading trumpet music just that it is tuned in Eb instead of Bb.
Kirk
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> There should not be a problem using an e flat tuba instead of a b flat in
> group?
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> From: "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] DJML- search of early New Orleans videos in
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> From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Pensacola
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> Kevin Yeates of Vancouver is searching for early videos of New Orleans in
> public domain. I referred him, off-line, to US Library of Congress,
> Jukebox Project. They're collecting sound recordings in public domain-not
> just jazz but others as well. It's likely that they might be able to help.
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> Suggestion by another DJML Listmate that he seek help from his own library
> in his search was also a good one.
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> Good wishes. Give us a follow-up, Kevin!
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> Norman
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> > *From: *"Kevin Yeates" <kyeates at yahoo.com>
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> > *Sent: *Friday, August 18, 2017 3:34:13 PM
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> > *Subject: *[Dixielandjazz] New Orleans Videos
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> >
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> > Does anyone know of a library of public domain videos of scenes in New
>
> > Orleans. I am looking for such footage for a music video about New
> Orleans
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> > (music is easier to listen to when you have something to watch ;>). I'd
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> > like to have scenes from early 1900's to present day.
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> > Kevin Yeates
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> > Vancouver, Canada
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> From: Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com>
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> I have a piece entitled 'You Can't Get There From Here'? in the current
> issue of 'The Note'. Here are some stories from it that I hope you might
> find diverting.
>
> Steve Voce
>
> When the exquisite coda to the ballad ended, the tsunami of applause
> raged around the theatre as the tenor player bent to speak to his pianist.
>
> /?Now /who?s your favourite tenor player?? Stan Getz demanded.
>
> ?Al Cohn,? said Lou Levy. ?Isn?t he yours??
>
> Zoot Sims famously described Stan Getz as being an interesting bunch of
> guys. I was lucky to meet the affable one of the pack that day in Nice
> during the 1980s.
>
> With an interview in mind I?d arranged during the evening beforeto meet
> Stan at eleven the following morning outside his hotel. Naturally it was
> one of the best hotels in town.
>
> As I stood there weighed down by a BBC portable tape recorder I thought
> it quite likely that he wouldn?t turn up. But he did, five minutes late,
> with his very attractive partner and a male friend who he introduced as
> an acupuncturist ?who does wonders for my back pains.?
>
> Stan led the way to the hotel?s private beach and paid for me, as a
> non-resident, to enter. He chose a good spot, pointed to the towels and
> we all lay down to sunbathe. After about 20 minutes Stan began to talk
> about music and I started up the Uher.
>
> He talked first about his early days and of the band he and Shorty
> Rogers had when they were eleven and how he left school when he was 16
> to join the Jack Teagarden band.
>
> ?Teagarden was a wonderful man,? he said. ?The war was on and sidemen
> were hard to get. But my mother and father were anxious about me going,
> so Jack had to become my guardian to convince them that I?d be OK.?
>
> Stan quoted some of the things that Jack had said to him and suddednly I
> jumped. The voice he used was Teagarden?s and I thought for a moment
> that the Texan was lying on the beach with us.
>
> It turned out that Stan, who I knew had a perfect musical memory (he
> never forgot a tune once he?d played it) was also a brilliant mimic.
>
> The morning drifted on and the reels turned. I was ecstatic. I left them
> to it at lunchtime.
>
> I took the recorder back to my modest hotel and set up the tape. It was
> then I discovered that the battery had failed making the tape record
> slow and the playback like a bunch of white mice on a hot plate.
>
> The back pains turned out to be the lung cancer that eventually killed him.
>
> Another tenor player, Bud Freeman, was cited by Lester Young as one of
> his main influences. Bud liked to think of himself as a cultured man and
> a connoisseur of many arts besides his music making.
>
> Very much an anglophile, he had always affected an English accent, and
> was delighted when it became time for his first visit to England in 1960.
>
> When he stepped off the plane he was met by a Rolls Royce sent for him
> by the Hon Gerald Lascelles, a cousin of the Queen?s.
>
> Bud was swept through the beautiful English countryside to Fort
> Belvedere, ancestral home of the Lascelles family and other royals. The
> Rolls passed smoothly along the long winding drive with its beautiful
> poplar trees and up to the magnificent portal of the house, where, as a
> liveried footman held the car door open for him and others scurried with
> his luggage, he stepped out onto a red carpet.
>
> Bud stood and surveyed the scene with satisfaction.
>
> ?Aaah,? he sighed. ?I always new England would be exactly like this.?
>
>
> A Canadian priest, Gerald Pocock, went to hear his friend Duke Ellington
> at New York?s Rainbow Grill in the early ?70s..
>
> 'I sat at the bar to wait for Duke and the small band to arrive. Sonny
> Greer? (a childhood friend of Duke?s who had left the band in 1951)
> ?joined me at the bar and we chatted. Ellington eventually arrived and
> approached me saying things like "Father Pocock! How wonderful to see
> you! You look wonderful! How have you been? We must get together!" and
> so forth.
>
> Ellington didn't say a word to his old friend Sonny Greer who was
> sitting next to me. Ellington eventually excused himself, saying that
> the band needed to start its set.
>
> Sonny Greer was understandably miffed; how could his old friend ignore
> him like that??Ellington and the band started to play, and at some point
> in the set Ellington made an announcement.
>
> "Ladies and gentlemen, we recently travelled to Ethiopia, where we were
> presented to their king, the man who has more titles than the Pope, His
> Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie,Menelik, the Lion of Judah. We were
> ushered into his his large royal chamber. We were on one side of the
> room and Selassie was at the other side on his throne, with an assistant
> standing at either side. Selassie turned and whispered something to one
> of his assistants. It was very suspenseful. The assistant walked all the
> way across the room, bowed and said to us: 'The emperor would like to
> know . . . . . . what the hell is Sonny Greer up to these days?'"
>
> Sonny Greer broke up laughing,'
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> From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant at garlic.com>
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> Albankirk wrote:
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> > There should not be a problem using an e flat tuba instead of a b flat
> in group?
>
> First of all, you wrote this as a reply to a digest that included multiple
> emails. As nearly as I can tell, neither message dealt with Eb vs BBb tubas.
>
> Therefore, am I guessing correctly that you're asking whether a Trad Jazz
> band can use an Eb tuba rather than a BBb tuba? If so, the answer is yes. I
> know a couple of players who also play classical stuff, and they use a CC
> tuba for Trad Jazz as well. Tom Holtz, who played with the Buck Creek Jazz
> Band (and whose "day job" was Principal Tuba in the US Marine Band in DC)
> played a Besson Eb with Buck Creek.
>
> Jim O'Briant
> Gilroy, CA
> Tuba & Leader, The Zinfandel Stompers Vintage Jazz Band
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