[Dixielandjazz] Bill Haesler!

[Ron L"Herault]

Hmmm,  

 

I didn’t see the message from Art Wood.   I too miss Don greatly.   Loosing him and his wife in their house fire was awful.  I kept prodding him to write a book around his memories but, alas, it was never to be.

 

Ron L

 

From: jim at kashprod.com <jim at kashprod.com> 
Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2022 11:44 AM
To: Ron <lherault at verizon.net>
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Bill Haesler!

 

Art, you mentioned Bill Heasler in your post below.  Can you prod him into have a look in on djml.  Perhaps he can answer the questions that were posted by one of our other members yesterday?  He´d be the man to do it.  I had the honor to have lunch with him when I visited Sydney a few years ago.  As all others I’ve met from djml….a great guy!

 

Cheers, Jim

 

De: ART WOOD <artwoo at aol.com <mailto:artwoo at aol.com> > 
Enviado el: sábado, 03 de diciembre de 2022 21:10
Para: Jim Kash <jim at kashprod.com <mailto:jim at kashprod.com> >
CC: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com <mailto:dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com> >
Asunto: Re: [Dixielandjazz] djml not dead, just resting!

 

Hi Jim et al:

I am a habitual lurker and am glad that the DJML is still alive. I joined when Peter Lovric was the moderator.

Don Ingle is one member who is greatly missed.

His first hand (or second hand from his dad) went way back to Bix...what a resource!

Certainly Bob Ringwald was an anchor of this group. I am indebted to him. When I needed musicians to play with me for my daughter's funeral in LA, Bob recommended CJ Sams on tuba and Corey Gemme on tbone. The occasion went well with their help.

Another member with a vast  knowledge of recordings and jazz info is Bill Haesler. 

I saw Jack Wiard a few months ago and Jack said that Bill is doing well.

By the way Dan Zeilinger (RIP 10/31/21) has a great YouTube program https://www.youtube.com/c/TradJazzToday/videos

I highly recommend this show. He interviews many of today's trad jazz stars. I think Dan had a premonition to accomplish this before his time ended.

Sincerely,

Art Wood

SF Bay Area 

 

On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 8:31 AM, jim at kashprod.com <mailto:jim at kashprod.com> 

<jim at kashprod.com <mailto:jim at kashprod.com> > wrote:

Good to see that djml was not actually dead, maybe just resting.  I see we have a newish member (to me, anyway!), Andrew Homzy, who might stir those more learned members into life, to answer his enquiries.  I, for one, have never dealt much with the history of what I do, other than listening to those I was impressed/influenced by.  I get my kicks from just playing this stuff, but respect those that wish to dig deeper.  

 

Good to hear from old friends Norman Vickers, Phil Wilkin, Jack Wiard, and Ron L’Herault.  I see another name I didn’t recognize, James Converse.  Last correspondence, I believe, on djml was in April when Patrick Skiffington wrote about Jim Maihack´s passing.  A bit earlier, in March, there was a short bout on djml, but little since.  Maybe we can keep it going a bit now.  I can’t add a lot, other than what my band is up to.

 

Here in Madrid, we recently played a private dinner party at a Tablao de Flamenco (Flamenco Club).  That was a first for our band, and it was fun playing in a joint where the acoustics were so good.  Plus, we had those great straight backed straw & wood chairs behind us (that the Flamenco people sit bolt upright on!).  One of those chairs served well for my “foot stunt” I mentioned earlier.  By the way, I copied that trick from Bob Havens, so I tend to refute any type of complaint that it is just “circus”!  If someone as good as Havens was did it, that’s good enough for me.  Besides, audiences love it.  I can manage a fairly musical solo with the slide between my toes, so there you have it!

 

We are in for two nites next week at Madrid’s most famed jazz club:  Café Central.  It’s right in the center of the touristy part of town.  We’ve played there since they opened their doors some 35 yrs ago.  They managed to get through the pandemic lay off, and are doing well.  We do 2  one hour concerts each nite, with an hour in between when they serve us a dinner.  Nice gig!

 

Jim

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