[Dixielandjazz] BBC Boo Boo Clothears

[ROBERT Calder]

BBC Sautland Philisterchronic  (not to be confused with any musical 
organsation).

A bit of fun for me, sending the note below answering a berk called 
Becket who seems to approve removing jazz from BBC Scotland. (More and 
very Scottish necks are on the block of the verdigris-collar gang).I 
wonder what would have been the result of mentioning to band members the 
fact that the grandson Ellington band in the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow 
(Hodges replaced by the same young man who was the Cannonball in Nat 
Adderley's ensemble in the fruitmarket) had in me and some others been 
at the Odeon hearing the then very new FAR EAST SUITE in 1967. The same 
scores turned up in the Pavilion.

In 1967 we had Cootie Williams in "The Shepherd" (Ellington's 
announcement of the number had me thinking the item was called "Night 
Flock".  Unlike in reviewed performances down south Cootie was on 
splendid form, and Russell Procope! Paul Gonsalves alas made me think of 
Ornette Coleman with one of the varitones being used at that time, 
taking the music an octave down  (I last heard of that  contraption from 
Lol Coxhill, wandering Greenwich Market unaccompanied, except for the 
four man audience in the rain, and pausing to rearrange the variously 
coloured rubber bands on the soprano he was trying to earn enough money 
to render playable without them -- latterly he'd been baritoning using a 
tenor and varitone in the then current Glenn Miller ghost band!).  I 
first met Lol in Portobello Town Hall (Edinburgh) in 1969 with Otis 
Spann  --  who plays piano and sings  on the link below (above my little 
rejoinder) -- in 1960 there had been some sort of riot threatening the 
Newport festival's future and Langston Hughes wrote the lyric. I 
remember Stephane Grappelli in Glasgow Theatre Royal cheering on 
opponents of earlier plug-pulling (Chamber Orchestra?) at Queen Margaret 
Drive!

(30) Goodbye Newport Blues (Live At Newport Jazz Festival/1960) - 
YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_7J1DokkI>

ciao!
Roberto

MY REJOINDER (TAKE 2)
I was trying to reply when an ad from some Yahoo company (cf. Gulliver's 
TRAVELS) gazumped my intended rejoinder. The phrase "dreadful row" in no 
wise represents anything in the music of for instance Johnny Hodges or 
Billy Strayhorn, whether it is of any interest to Billy Boy it seems. It 
might leave Father William cold, but a centenary concert organised and 
performed by Prof. Robert Watson as part of an official (not merely 
jazz) Edinburgh Festival some fifteen years ago marked also the fortieth 
anniversary of Hodges' final performance in Scotland, but only in 
Glasgow. It had been intended to bring Hodges and his fellow 
sexagenarians in the Duke Ellington Orchestra to the Usher Hall, but the 
Headinburrow management jacked up the hall fees ruling that out, all 
because of damage sustained by the building (1966?) during a concert or 
two by an ensemble some Edinburgers seemed to relate promiscuously with 
Ellington, who did perform again only half a dozen years later, by which 
time Hodges was dead, although there was Joe Temperley, probably more a 
hero of New York than of his native Kelty, with a Lincoln Center 
Orchestra playing "Single Petal of a Rose" on bass clarinet, Joe deputy 
and eventual successor to Ellington's longtime baritone saxophonist, who 
was in the Usher Hall in the early 1970s. The ensemble Edinburgh 
authorities confused with the it seems posthumously rehabilitated Hodges 
and his colleague Strayhorn proved more lucrative. Does citizen Becket 
like the Beatles?  Or is his reference to "dreadful row" a learned 
allusion to the twelve-tone row (rhyming rather with dough than dhow) of 
Arnold Schoenberg?
RRC.


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