[Dixielandjazz] Fascinating Rhythm

[Marek Boym]

Hello Jim,
I heard Mulligan playing Dixieland on clarinet borrowed from Tony Scott.
That was at a jam session in Nice in 1976.  Doc Cheatham and some other
veterans were playing and swinging like mad.  Mulligan decided to join the
party and in a few minutes swayed the style to 4-beat Dixieland, thus
proving what he declared - "I am a Dixielander at heart."  The jam session
ended at 4 AM, or rather, I left at 4AM when all the traditional musicians
were gradually replaced by youngsters who couldn't really play.
BTW, the French waiters were astonishing - they walked between peoples'
legs (the place was crowded and we were sitting on the floor), holding the
trays above their heads, and remembered what everybody ordered!
Cheers

On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 20:25, <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:

> After my last post to DJML, I was thinking it might be fun to put up this
> video from YouTube to show the class of people I was fortunate enough to
> have played with in the late 1960’s in Madrid, when the club I played at
> nitely had something as sinister as jazz was behind an unmarked
> door…..during the time of Franco!.
>
>
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> I mentioned earlier that the drummer seemed to be able to pull the band
> back together when the few times we wandered into a “free” period.  The
> drummer then was Enrique Llacer, known by the name of Regolí.  You will be
> able to see here that he is an accomplished percussionist (his daytime job
> was percussionist with the Spanish National Orchestra), and plays on this
> recording drums and other percussion, along with vibraphone, xylophone, and
> the marimba.
>
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>
> Regolí played with our band, Canal Street Jazz Band all during the 1970’s,
> and then introduced us to one of his students who took over his job with
> the band for another 20 yrs before passing his position off to one of HIS
> students, who is now our current drummer since the year 2000.
>
>
>
> Anyway, enjoy this version Fascinating Rhythm with Regolí:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzMSM6z36Q
>
>
>
> Jim
>
> p.s. Yes, that is Gerry Mulligan in one of the photos, along with our then
> trumpeter, Joe Moro.  Most of the people seen in those old photos were my
> “compañeros” in the Madrid recording studios.  Nice memories…..
>
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