[Dixielandjazz] Wally Fawkes a birthday greeting

[Steve Voce]

I agree, Maryk, that Wally is one of the clarinet greats. His work in 
solo and in ensembles with Humph was sublime. He was also, until his 
sight deteriorated, one of the greatest cartoonists. Cricket is one of 
his great joys in life, and he and his wife Sue have separate television 
sets in the same room. Wally has to sit very near to and watch the set 
from an oblique angle, whilst Sue sits at a normal distance from hers 
and views it from a normal angle.

Cy Laurie, on the other hand, was a nutter who genuinely believed that 
he was the reincarnation of Johnny Dodds. He might have got away with 
that if he had been as good as Johnny Dodds, but unfortunately he was 
only as good as Cy Laurie. Did you know, incidentally, that Johnny 
Dodds's son  had a full career as an airline pilot?

Steve Voce


On 24/06/2017 13:20, Marek Boym wrote:
> Wally Fawkes!  A perennial favourite of mine ever since I first heard 
> the early Humph band, when dad brought me the "Humph's Blues" EP back 
> in 1959.  I have since acquired quite a few Wally Fawkes (and Humph) 
> recordings, including "It seems Like Yesterday" (it doesn't).  I 
> bought SOS' "That's the Blues, Old Man" and later, unlike my wont, the 
> Lake reissue of the three Fawkes albums on SOS when the other two LPs 
> were no longer available (I could not afford them at the time of 
> issuance).  And more.  Only not the Troglodytes - I have one second 
> hand EP, but so far I haven't seen any LPs of the group; I have, 
> however, The Neo-Troglodytes.
> I consider Fawkes one of the all time clarinet grates (all the others, 
> with the exception of Cy Laurie, being American).
> Cheers
>
> On 24 June 2017 at 00:22, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:serapion at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     Wally the great clarinetist has it seems turned 93 ...
>
>     I was reminded in the non-political mailing linked to below
>
>
>     The cartoon can be appreciated with another face in the place of
>     the one shown.
>     Too many faces, to be sure,
>
>     and not Ruby Braff, Wally's caricature of whom nearly sent Kenny
>     Davern into orbit.
>     WHO DID THIS? Search Google Images for more delights
>
>
>     https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/wally-trog-fawkes-master-of-the-political-cartoon-and-the-jazz-clarinet/
>     <https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/wally-trog-fawkes-master-of-the-political-cartoon-and-the-jazz-clarinet/>
>
>
>      and a lovely feller is Wally altogether !
>
>     Robert R. Calder
>
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