[Dixielandjazz] Stan Greig

[Marek Boym]

"Rums" sounds good to me, even if I prefer malts (for American listmates:
"malt" means malt whisky).
Cheers

On 9 July 2017 at 23:24, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:

> Small point: Mick Pyne was with Humph for years after Stan was. Mick came
> after Stan in the band. Stan also played rums in the band at another time.
>
> Steve Voce
>
> On 09/07/2017 18:38, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:
>
> Stan played piano for a long time with Humph's band -- after Mick Pyne,
> whose other instrument was cornet.
> Mick could have performed with the other people listed as earlier
> colleagues of Tony Fisher.
> I'm sure he did play with some of them. His ALONE TOGETHER is mighty
> impressive and emphatically OKOM.
>
> Stan was of a generation which grew up with boogie woogie in earshot.
> He was drummer in Sandy Brown's initial Fairweather band.
> A master of tempo was what Wally Fawkes said of him when I heard the
> Fawkes-Greig unit at Kings Cross.
> Stan can be seen on YouTube as pianist in a touring Harlem Blues and Jazz
> band.
> His day job was as a piano tuner, I think in succession to his father but
> in London rather than Edinburgh.
>
> I remember him as a member of Humph's band doing one of the
> Ellington-Blanton duets at an Edinburgh gig. Maybe it was "Pitter, Panther,
> Patter" and interesting though not an ideal performance. The interesting
> thing was a kind of blurriness of Stan's playing, not crisp articulation
> but a forward moving flow, which is what he brought to Humph's band. I'm
> sure the articulation would have been clearer on a newer piano requiring
> less internal attention of the sort Stan ate by providing. It was
> intriguing to hear the change from Pyne to Greig at a time when I was
> hearing more than at any other time Humph's band.
>
> Humph was blessed in having those two to choose
> (and give money to, to cite the famous Ellington retort to Humph on the
> "gimmick" which enabled him to keep the band together. The original
> interview, which involved Humph and John Dankworth, was excerpted to
> include the quip during a BBC hour of John Dankworth from the archives,
> marking -- would you believe -- the putting up of a blue official plaque to
> mark the saxophonist/ composer etc's sometime whereabouts. There wasn't
> exactly a plethora of information about any other musicians, and the
> captioning as seems usual when the BBC deigns to do any jazz thing on TV
> seemed to have been contrived by fans of cliche serving an apprenticeship
> in children's broadcasting
>
> But they did in the past broadcast back at the time a Dankworth-Clark gig
> from a tour Clark made.
> Complete with Clark re-telling the Dankworth joke about how a herd of
> cattle strayed into an ink factory, drank from a vat, and Moo-ed Indigo.
>
> Less naughty than Rex Stewart's story of "Warm Valley",
>
> ttfn,
> Robert R. Calder
>
>
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