[Dixielandjazz] Wally Fawkes a birthday greeting

[Marek Boym]

Robert Calder has just reminded me of another British clarinettist
deserving inclusion in the "a;; tome greats" roster Sandy Brown.
Unfortunately I found no Jem's in my fridge, so I sttled for Jopen's (it's
pronounced Yopen) Koyt Gruitbier, only 8.5% abv.
Cheers

On 24 June 2017 at 18:18, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure,
> Cy was a Dodds' man.  Whether he was or was not as good is difficult to
> tell, as his sound, in particular in his later years, was different.  As
> impassioned as Dodds', yes, but different.  In his later years Cy played
> lots of music which was quite removed from New Orleans.
> But de gustibus, etc... After all, this is not our only disagreement
> regardsing music, which is all right with me.
> Yes, I did know about Dodds' son - what a change from the WW1 days, when
> an American Negro could fly for France but not for his own country!  Good
> to know that at least some things change for the better.
> Cheers (going to have Jem's 8.8)
>
>
> On 24 June 2017 at 16:07, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> 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/
>>>
>>>
>>>  and a lovely feller is Wally altogether !
>>>
>>> Robert R. Calder
>>>
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