<div dir="ltr"><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></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 19:34, 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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