[Dixielandjazz] Wally Fawkes a birthday greeting
Steve Voce
stevevoce at virginmedia.com
Sat Jun 24 13:51:24 EDT 2017
You shouldn't leave out the great Archie Semple, and Acker Bilk was ten
times the jazz musician your pal Cy Laurie was! Not to mention any of
the fine modern clarinettists or the extremely skilled Sid Phillips.
There are many more in your field, of course, who it would pain to omit
- Christie, Turner, the ci-devant Danny Polo....
But don't let us start making lists again. It's non-productive, like
stamp collecting.
Steve Voce
On 24/06/2017 17:40, Marek Boym wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <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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