[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Downunder

[Marek Boym]

Hello Roger,
Your taste seems to converge with mine.  I didn't like Zoot Sims when he
played "cool" (an antonym of jazz as far as I am concerned), and was
greatly surprised to hear him laying hot in 1976; I have since added some
Sims to my collection.
A strange coincidence - I, too, came to jazz at about the same time and
age, albeit after hearing a swinging band live (something new in a
communist country).  Until then I had no interest in music, from then on it
has been my main interest in life!
As to other interest, I am afraid they are rather different - I like the
theatre, poetry, painting, and travelling.
Cheers,
Marek, Israel

On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 19:34, Roger Strong <roger at nikau-nursery.co.nz> wrote:

>       Thanks for allowing me in the group.
>       I have been interested in jazz for most of my 77 years and started
> out as a 13 year old in 1954 when my older brother won a table top record
> player in a cycle race. Friends of his gave him some 78 records  and one of
> which was
> Jelly Roll Morton’s ‘Black Bottom Stomp’ backed with ‘Grandpas
> Spells’.     At the end of  the 1950’s a friend of my brother won an essay
> competition with the prize being a complete set of the 12 LPs of Morton’s
> Library of Congress
> recordings. My tastes in jazz currently range from  King Oliver up to
> about Zoot Sims with a liking for big band, Ellington and Basie as well.
> As long as it swings then its for me!
>       Finding jazz wasn’t easy in New Zealand in those days and records
> came mostly from the UK because of the restrictions which applied to
> overseas currency- especially US dollars and in the late 1950’s and early
> 1960’s it was illegal to
> have $US even in your possession. I recall being nervous as I had a US $10
> note. I grew up in Christchurch and Operation Deep Freeze mission to
> Antarctica was based there so there were some dollars around.
>       A lifetime of collecting has given me a large collection but I am
> interested in exchanging with anyone.
>      There has never been a lot of jazz of any sort in New Zealand but
> jazz flourished in Australia after WW2 and I am interested in the
> traditional jazz from there. As I said it was much easier to get jazz from
> the UK than from anywhere else
> and I have a reasonable collection of jazz from there.
>       I live in a New Zealand town of about 25,000 – a tourist town in a
> scenic part of the country beside a large lake. I doubt that there is
> single traditional or indeed jazz fan of any sort in the area and so I rely
> on the internet for jazz contact.
>       As many of you of similar age will no doubt have noticed many of my
> jazz enthusiast contemporaries have a habit of dying and so I look forward
> to hearing from anyone with similar interests.
>      I was teacher for most of my working life and have an interest in
> history and New Zealand native plants as well.
>
>                  Roger Strong
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