[Dixielandjazz] Marek

[ROBERT Calder]

I've been missing him too, and maybe one of these days I'll write 
something more about him.

I still remember that concert we both attended, years before we ever 
heard of each other, Buddy Tate playing out of his skin and Benny Waters 
at a mere 82 or so giving him a roasting, Ryries at Haymarket, Edinburgh 
1984 or so.  We reminisced about that, and more, and there might even 
have been a tape of it, such as Marek naughtily made from a pocket at 
many the gig he attended, which recordings might well be an addition to 
the warm memories.  He did have some life, our very own Ann Frank 
equivalent, born in Poland to Jewish parents in 1941, existing in secret 
until the alleged liberation, and then the years of pre-Jaroselski and 
the more like liberation which allowed him to reach the part of the West 
called the Middle East.

I felt a lot less like housebound, which I was before the current 
sequence of lockdowns, with the regular fun from Marek
-- the link below came from him, bizarrely, the same day the same link, 
non-jazz but maybe adaptable (?) came from my mate Werner in Vienna, 
much younger and much too early departed too. A bit of fun such as our 
dear friend relished --


so have a laugh in his memory!

all the very best to you all!

Robert




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVASZ2lCY5Y
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