[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Downunder

[Steve Voce]

What's your favourite Zoot Sims record?

Zoot was asked how he could play tenor so well when he was always drunk.

"I'm always drunk when I practice," he replied.


On 03/11/2018 22:22, Marek Boym wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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