[Dixielandjazz] Wally Fawkes a birthday greeting

[Marek Boym]

On 25 June 2017 at 11:56, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:

>
> I went to concerts in the early days when Cy Laurie had his 'Four'. One of
> his four was Beryl Bryden and another was a rather good trumpet player,
> whose name I can't remember (it was in the Fifties). I think it was Les.
>
> With regard to my being rude about Cy's clarinet work: I remember him as a
> very docile but enthusiastic fellow. But I was unhappy with his playing
> nothing  but the closest copy that he could get to Johnny Dodds. So I
> didn't like his playing and implied so in my e-mail.
>
"Implied," Steve?
The language you used was hardly that!
So basically you have not heard Cy since the beginning of the '50's, you
are not aware of his development, but you pass judgement, render a severe
sentence, and call that "implying."
Cheers
The trumpeter, by the way, was Les Jowett.






> I didn't like the singing of Vera Lynn or Bill Haley and the Comets. Or
> Beryl Bryden, come to that. Henry VIII was regarded as a great king, but I
> didn't like him.
>
> Am I not allowed to say so?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
> On 24/06/2017 23:00, Bill Haesler wrote:
>
> Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
> 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....
>
> Dear Steve,
> Danny Polo?
> Born in Clinton, Indiana, died in Chicago, Illinois (1901-1949) and worked
> and recorded in England in the 1930s.
> Why include him on a list of British jazz revival clarinettists?
>
> And why single out Cy Laurie for unnecessary insult?
> ("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.”)
> Cy was a very popular Trad jazz pioneer who contributed to its success,
> inspired and captivated by Johnny Dodds’ playing.
> I found Cy to be a passionate and friendly jazzman, and felt privileged to
> play with him and pianist Johnny Parker on several of my visits to
> Pomgolia.
>
> But don't let us start making lists again. It's non-productive, like stamp
> collecting.
>
> In that, I wholehearted agree with you.
> Cheers,
> Bill.
>
>
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