[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 200, Issue 10
Phil Cartwright
pcartwri at kent.edu
Fri Aug 9 22:06:47 EDT 2019
I was fortunate to play with Ted's JRJB in the late 80's and early 90's.
As some of you may recall, he often used a second banjo player. My role as
2nd (tenor) bjo player was to cover the rare banjo breaks and do a few
vocals. We stayed in touch for many years. Someone mentioned that Ted was
a Xerox salesman. I bought one from him and used it for many years!
I'm back in Napa, CA after many years playing in the Cleveland, OH area.
Phil Cartwright
(330) 958 4098
www.philcartwright.com
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> 1. Ted Shafer, RIP (Bob)
> 2. Re: Ted Shafer, RIP (M J _Mike_ Logsdon)
> 3. Re: Ted Shafer, RIP (M J _Mike_ Logsdon)
> 4. Re: Ted Shafer, RIP (Jim O'Briant)
> 5. Re: Ted Shafer, RIP (Jim O'Briant)
> 6. Re: Ted Shafer, RIP (domitype)
> 7. Re: Ted Shafer, RIP (M J _Mike_ Logsdon)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 10:47:23 -0700
> From: Bob <shoring.b at gmail.com>
> To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Ted Shafer, RIP
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> Sad news, indeed.
>
> Ted Shafer first formed the Jelly Roll Jazz Band in Los Angeles in 1959,
> with an 8 piece King Oliver/Lu Watters style 2 trumpet band. Around the mid
> 1960?s he moved to the SF Bay Area and continued with an 8 piece band and
> often also had a subset of that band in a 5 piece configuration.
>
> Great guy! He will be missed for sure.
>
> Bob Shoring
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:49:07 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Ted Shafer, RIP
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> I will never forget the first time I met Ted. It was over the phone, and
> it was (I think) 1995 or so. I'd gotten my hands on one of his fliers
> advertising his currently available Merry Makers Record Company CDs, and
> called him. It went something like this:
>
> "Hello?"
> "Hello! Is this Mr Shafer?"
> "No, Mr Shafer's my father and he's dead. My name's Ted. What's yours?"
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> "Because that's the kind of guy, I'm." -- C Reiner, "Your Show of Shows",
> skit: "From Here to Obscurity".
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 15:42:56 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Ted Shafer, RIP
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> Is there an obituary yet? (Maybe too soon.) Please, once someone knows
> of one, post link here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> "Because that's the kind of guy, I'm." -- C Reiner, "Your Show of Shows",
> skit: "From Here to Obscurity".
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 04:25:41 -0700
> From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant at garlic.com>
> To: "'M J _Mike_ Logsdon'" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> Cc: 'Dixieland Jazz Mailing List' <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Ted Shafer, RIP
> Message-ID: <003a01d54ea5$2dd34ad0$8979e070$@garlic.com>
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> Mike L. wrote:
>
>
>
> * I will never forget the first time I met Ted. It was over the
> phone, and it was (I think) 1995 or so.
> * I'd gotten my hands on one of his fliers advertising his currently
> available Merry Makers Record
> * Company CDs, and called him. It went something like this:
>
>
>
> * "Hello?"
> * "Hello! Is this Mr Shafer?"
> * "No, Mr Shafer's my father and he's dead. My name's Ted. What's
> yours?"
>
>
>
> In early 2007, I'd been playing tuba in Ted Shafer's Jelly Roll Jazz Band
> for a little less than a year. I was toying with the thought of starting a
> band of my own. So during a break at one of our weekly gigs, I went to Ted
> and said, "I'm thinking of staring my own Trad Band down in Gilroy. What
> advice do you have for me?"
>
>
>
> Immediately, he replied, "Have your G-D------ head examined!"
>
>
>
> We both laughed, and then he continued, "Really. Think about whether you
> want all the work and headaches that you get when you lead a jazz band. But
> if you think about it seriously, and still want to do it, then hire the
> very
> best musicians you can find."
>
>
>
> Jim O'Briant, Gilroy, CA
>
> Tuba / Leader, The Zinfandel Stompers Vintage Jazz Band
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 04:32:15 -0700
> From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant at garlic.com>
> To: "'Bob'" <shoring.b at gmail.com>, "'Dixieland Jazz Mailing List'"
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> Bob S. wrote:
>
>
>
> * Ted Shafer first formed the Jelly Roll Jazz Band in Los Angeles in
> 1959, with an 8 piece
> * King Oliver/Lu Watters style 2 trumpet band. Around the mid 1960?s
> he moved to the SF
> * ay Area and continued with an 8 piece band and often also had a
> subset of that band in
> * a 5 piece configuration.
>
>
>
> When Ted hired me in 2006, it was for the smaller band, which was 6
> pieces. The regular players were:
>
>
>
> * Earl Scheelar, cornet (doubling clarinet)
> * Pete Main, clarinet (doubling sax & occasional other instruments)
> * Glenn Calkins, trombone (doubling clarinet)
> * Jim O?Briant, tuba
> * Ted Shafer, Banjo & Leader
> * Tom Barnebey, Piano
>
>
>
> I?m second guessing myself regarding Tom on Piano. I think he was the
> regular pianist then. If not, he still played with us often.
>
>
>
> The larger band at that time, and up till Ted retired, was 9 pieces; the
> personnel varied a lot more:
>
>
>
> * 2 Cornets/Trumpets
> * Reeds
> * Trombone
> * Tuba
> * Banjo
> * Piano
> * Drums
>
>
>
> Jim O?Briant, Gilroy, CA
>
> Tuba / Leader, The Zinfandel Stompers Vintage Jazz Band
>
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> Ted called in to my Sunday morning show on KFJC from time to time with SF
> Jazz stories and he would send copies of his CDs.
> I filled-in on tuba more than a few times and always found his band fun to
> play with, well led...
>
> Dave Richoux
>
> On Friday, August 9, 2019, Jim O'Briant <jobriant at garlic.com> wrote:
>
> > Bob S. wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > - Ted Shafer first formed the Jelly Roll Jazz Band in Los Angeles in
> > 1959, with an 8 piece
> > - King Oliver/Lu Watters style 2 trumpet band. Around the mid 1960?s
> > he moved to the SF
> > - ay Area and continued with an 8 piece band and often also had a
> > subset of that band in
> > - a 5 piece configuration.
> >
> >
> >
> > When Ted hired me in 2006, it was for the smaller band, which was 6
> > pieces. The regular players were:
> >
> >
> >
> > - Earl Scheelar, cornet (doubling clarinet)
> > - Pete Main, clarinet (doubling sax & occasional other instruments)
> > - Glenn Calkins, trombone (doubling clarinet)
> > - Jim O?Briant, tuba
> > - Ted Shafer, Banjo & Leader
> > - Tom Barnebey, Piano
> >
> >
> >
> > I?m second guessing myself regarding Tom on Piano. I think he was the
> > regular pianist then. If not, he still played with us often.
> >
> >
> >
> > The larger band at that time, and up till Ted retired, was 9 pieces; the
> > personnel varied a lot more:
> >
> >
> >
> > - 2 Cornets/Trumpets
> > - Reeds
> > - Trombone
> > - Tuba
> > - Banjo
> > - Piano
> > - Drums
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim O?Briant, Gilroy, CA
> >
> > Tuba / Leader, The Zinfandel Stompers Vintage Jazz Band
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 08:53:31 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> From: M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Ted Shafer, RIP
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> If anything, Ted knew the "sound" he wanted. And like most
> individualists, though he modeled his bands after others that had gone
> before, his always had its own particular sound.
>
> In Ted's case, that sound was what it was; maybe not what one was looking
> for, per se, but, as the musicians nearly to a person say, fun to play with.
>
> His crowning glory (he told me this, so I'm not making it up) was his one
> and only Stomp Off CD. It was often heard between sets at festivals.
>
> His other crowning glory, of course, was Merry Makers Record Company.
> Turk has some interesting comments in "Just for the Record". My first
> taste was his first CD, of the 1966 8-piece So Cal iteration. Truly
> iconic, that CD (and/or LP; I only know of the CD).
>
> The last time I met up with Ted, via the smaller band iteration, I don't
> recall the year, but maybe Mr O'Briant can dredge it up, was, oh, about a
> decade or so ago, at the Monterey Hot Jazz Society's monthly meeting. The
> cornet was Ted Thomas of Gremoli fame, that much I know. What sticks out
> for me from my talking with Ted that day was our discussion of Jasmine's
> complete Watters' Hambone Kelly's recordings, and the fact that, when all
> was said and done, the LPs they used to produce said CDs were Ted's Merry
> Makers LPs, as no other iteration had used that exact "stacking order". (I
> had my own tale to tell him, ie, that after Jasmine had put out volume 1
> they told me there was no way to put out a volume 2 that contained the
> complete Hambone's output, I told them "But I did it, privately for my own
> use. There's no way 2 volumes can't contain the complete output." A month
> or so later, I get, in the mail, a volume 2, finishing the complete output,
> totally free of charge! Needless to say, Ted liked that story!)
>
> RIP Ted. A very unique person. How many of you know that he was also a
> retired Xerox repairman? (Not counting whoever it was who told me, that
> is!)
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> "Because that's the kind of guy, I'm." -- C Reiner, "Your Show of Shows",
> skit: "From Here to Obscurity".
>
>
>
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