[Dixielandjazz] BBC Boo Boo Clothears

[Jim Denham]

Brilliant! Thanks Robert.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 6:36 AM ROBERT Calder <serapion at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> 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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