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<p>I've just played some of the Crouch End band stuff over the phone
to Wally Fawkes (no good trying to send it because Wally (a) is
not computer-clad and (b) wouldn't be able to see it anyway with
his failing sight. He's just enjoying half a dozen Teagarden CDs
(including a 4 hour interview with Jack) that I sent to him last
week.</p>
<p>Steve Voce<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/08/2016 20:33, Tony Davis wrote:<br>
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<p>My thanks to Robert Calder for bringing to my attention the sad
news of Graham's death, and the Guardian obituary which I
unaccountably failed to spot at the time.<br>
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<p>Graham and I were - roughly - contemporaries at King Edward's
School, Birmingham, though he was a few years ahead of me. I
remember meeting him once in a pub in Birmingham, but we didn't
get to know each other until 2002, when we met at the funeral of
pianist Ray Foxley (another Old Edwardian). A couple of years
later he asked me to play trumpet at a dinner for the Old
Edwardians' Association at a club in Piccadilly. Graham's idea
was to put together a band made up entirely of Old Edwardians,
and he almost succeeded; I think only the bass player was an
"import". Graham himself was on piano, of course.</p>
<p>A lovely man indeed, and as his son says, a "creative force".</p>
<p>Tony Davis <br>
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On 09/08/16 14:43, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:<br>
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and friends <br>
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fellow acquaintance of the leader and pianist of the Crouch
End All Stars has told me (by e-mail, and from a current
location in New Orleans -- sic! -- to where I have copied
this) of Graham's recent death. See below for link to
Guardian obit by one of his progeny. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470741558135_25636" dir="ltr">Lovely
man, Graham, some years back cooked a brace of haggis I had
left with a friend for the impending Burns anniversary
celebration, and rather than jazz had endless rugby songs
from said friend and the fellow Caledonian and guest Nicol
Williamson (of stage and screen fame). <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470741558135_25409" dir="ltr">Graham
maintained that he had formed the Crouch End ensemble
consequent to the cajolings of his old friend Wally Fawkes,
to be a band with or within which Wally could play. The
Lytteltonian parallel continued when rather than supposedly
existing as a band with which Wally could perform it became
one with which Ian Christie performed (same sequence in
which the two clarinetists were with Humphrey Lyttelton.
Graham had his reminiscences of others sometime happily
prominent, Bruce Turner sending up our Scottish hero Sandy
Brown, when Sandy demonstrated, not that bebop harmonies
were horrible nonsense (some would agree with him) but that
his own ear was tuned to something different. Bruce
parodying Sandy travestying Bop, was how Graham referred to
it. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470741558135_24741" dir="ltr">"Dear
Bruce," he actually said. <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470741558135_25120" dir="ltr">One
of our listmates tells me Tayar means traveller, and Graham
had on his wall a certificate or permit issued to one of his
ancestors the century before last, licensing trade on the
Mediterranean. The Guardian obituary provides a little more,
and Wally is recognisable to eye and ear on the YouTube
clip, <br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1470741558135_24793" dir="ltr">Robert
R. Calder <br>
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