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<p>What's your favourite Zoot Sims record?</p>
<p>Zoot was asked how he could play tenor so well when he was always
drunk.</p>
<p>"I'm always drunk when I practice," he replied.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/11/2018 22:22, Marek Boym wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello Roger,</div>
<div>Your taste seems to converge with mine. I didn't like Zoot
Sims when he played "cool" (an antonym of jazz as far as I am
concerned), and was greatly surprised to hear him laying hot
in 1976; I have since added some Sims to my collection.</div>
<div>A strange coincidence - I, too, came to jazz at about the
same time and age, albeit after hearing a swinging band live
(something new in a communist country). Until then I had no
interest in music, from then on it has been my main interest
in life!</div>
<div>As to other interest, I am afraid they are rather different
- I like the theatre, poetry, painting, and travelling.</div>
<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Marek, Israel<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 19:34, Roger Strong <<a
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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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<div> Roger Strong</div>
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