<div dir="ltr"><div>Favourite record? Difficult to say. And one I have is actually a compilation of tunes from two different albums with Buddy Rich.</div><div>When I saw Sims in Nice, when he was not playing he was holding either a beer or a glass of wine. At 5PM, the beginning, his hands were steady, but gradually became more and more shaky as the evening progressed. But whenever he picked his sax up his hands steadied and he played very well, surprisingly well for a person after such alcohol intake.</div><div>Cheers</div><div>BTW, your posting went into spam again.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 11:24, Steve Voce <<a href="mailto:stevevoce@virginmedia.com">stevevoce@virginmedia.com</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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<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>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>roger@nikau-nursery.co.nz</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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