<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello, Roger and, welcome. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you for your interesting personal introduction. Although our sort of jazz is a bit sparse in NZ, you may find compatriots in the DJML who will keep you in touch with happenings. The last time I was in NZ was over 20 years ago. The Creole Bells on the way home from Sacramento broke the journey and played a night at the Jazz Club in Auckland which was very well attended.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This year's Australian Jazz Convention may be the last to be held at Ballarat, Vic for a while as it may be hosted by another city. The AJC always has some bands and, many musicians who have been involved in the Australian jazz revival since WW11. Pop across the ditch if you can</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.2018jazzconvention.org.au/">https://www.2018jazzconvention.org.au/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Tony Orr</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 4:13 AM Roger Strong <<a href="mailto:roger@nikau-nursery.co.nz">roger@nikau-nursery.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div> Thanks for allowing me in the group.</div>
<div> I have been interested in jazz for most of
my 77 years and started out as a 13 year old in 1954 when my older brother won a
table top record player in a cycle race. Friends of his gave him some 78
records and one of which was </div>
<div>Jelly Roll Morton’s ‘Black Bottom Stomp’ backed with ‘Grandpas
Spells’. At the end of the 1950’s a friend of my
brother won an essay competition with the prize being a complete set of the 12
LPs of Morton’s Library of Congress</div>
<div>recordings. My tastes in jazz currently range from King Oliver up to
about Zoot Sims with a liking for big band, Ellington and Basie as well.
As long as it swings then its for me! </div>
<div> Finding jazz wasn’t easy in New Zealand in
those days and records came mostly from the UK because of the restrictions which
applied to overseas currency- especially US dollars and in the late 1950’s and
early 1960’s it was illegal to </div>
<div>have $US even in your possession. I recall being nervous as I had a US $10
note. I grew up in Christchurch and Operation Deep Freeze mission to Antarctica
was based there so there were some dollars around.</div>
<div> A lifetime of collecting has given me a
large collection but I am interested in exchanging with anyone. </div>
<div> There has never been a lot of jazz of any sort in
New Zealand but jazz flourished in Australia after WW2 and I am interested in
the traditional jazz from there. As I said it was much easier to get jazz from
the UK than from anywhere else</div>
<div>and I have a reasonable collection of jazz from there.</div>
<div> I live in a New Zealand town of about 25,000
– a tourist town in a scenic part of the country beside a large lake. I doubt
that there is single traditional or indeed jazz fan of any sort in the area and
so I rely on the internet for jazz contact.</div>
<div> As many of you of similar age will no doubt
have noticed many of my jazz enthusiast contemporaries have a habit of dying and
so I look forward to hearing from anyone with similar interests.</div>
<div> I was teacher for most of my working life and have
an interest in history and New Zealand native plants as well.</div>
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Roger Strong</div></div></div></div>
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