[Dixielandjazz] RV: FW: "THE NEW MELBOURNE JAZZ BAND in THE USA" & The Canal Street Jazz Band in Madrid

[jim at kashprod.com]

Great video, Ross, and so good to hear from someone again on the mailing
list!  Have you still got that great moustache, as seen in your enclosed
video?  As is true in many bands, it is the trombonist who does the
announcing & the singing.  I do that, and insist that I am a "trombonist
that enjoys singing" rather than a "singer"!  A singer is Ella Fizgerald,
Frank Sinatra, etc.  

 

I just about posted the other day, the 22 of May, to say something similar
as you did, Ross.  Looking back not 40 yrs, but only 20 years, when our
band, the Canal Street Jazz Band, played in Madrid for the wedding ceremony
of the now Spanish King & Queen (in 2004, the were Royal, but not yet King &
Queen!).  I have a great photo of their Rolls Royce rolling slowly by our
large stage on the main drag of Madrid, with the couple waving to us as we
played.  I don't actually have a video of the band playing, rather just
photos, so can't post them here on the mailing list.  We set a record,
though, that day for a Dixieland band, by playing for a tv audience of over
a billion people world-wide.  I received emails from people as far away as
your Australia, South America, and all over the U.S. the next day, with
everyone saying "we saw you on tv yesterday!  We entertained the waiting
crowds of people on the street (waiting for the Rolls drive by) for 2 hours
that day.  I actually do have a video, one put out by our largest department
store and Spanish TV, where the band can be seen, and the announcer says
that the Canal Street Jazz Band of Madrid is led by the Armenian American
trombonist.etc.  Must have been my years working in the Spanish national TV
studios as a session musician that the show's producer came up with that
bit!  They never consulted me about it.  I've never put any of that on
YouTube, as it would most likely get pulled down as I don't own the rights
to the video.

 

All of that is now in the past.  The couple's oldest daughter is now taking
on major Royal duties, and there is gossip of a marriage breakup!  

 

Luckily for our band, no breakup has ever been a threat, and we are now in
our 57th year of steady playing.  3 of us are from the original band, the
other 2 "young 'uns" have been in the band for almost 20 yrs now, and we're
still busy honking.  Covid did in a few of the local jazz joints, and the
economic crash is 2008 lowered considerably the amount of weddings, company
dinners, etc., but we still manage a few gigs a month.  I'm 83 now, and
continue to practice every day.  The trombone is an unforgiving master of my
life, and it always needs my attention.

 

Anyway, as I said, glad to see someone posting on the list again.  Thanks
for that, Ross.

 

Jim Kashishian, in Madrid

 

De: Ross Anderson <rossanmjband at iprimus.com.au> 
Enviado el: viernes, 24 de mayo de 2024 23:59
Para: Jim Kash <jim at kashprod.com>
CC: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Asunto: [Dixielandjazz] FW: "THE NEW MELBOURNE JAZZ BAND in THE USA"

 

 

Dear All,

40 years ago this weekend !!!

Cheers, Ross

.Subject: "THE NEW MELBOURNE JAZZ BAND in THE USA"

 

This works .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95cs77J3_1g

What a great "blast from the past" ...

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