[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Downunder

[Tony Orr]

Hello, Roger and, welcome.
Thank you for your interesting personal introduction. Although our sort of
jazz is a bit sparse in NZ, you may find compatriots in the DJML who will
keep you in touch with happenings. The last time I was in NZ was over 20
years ago. The Creole Bells on the way home from Sacramento broke the
journey and played a night at the Jazz Club in Auckland which was very well
attended.
This year's Australian Jazz Convention may be the last to be held at
Ballarat, Vic for a while as it may be hosted by another city. The AJC
always has some bands and, many musicians who have been involved in the
Australian jazz revival since WW11. Pop across the ditch if you can
https://www.2018jazzconvention.org.au/

cheers

Tony Orr


On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:13 AM 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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