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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Great video, Ross, and so good to hear from someone again on the mailing list! Have you still got that great moustache, as seen in your enclosed video? As is true in many bands, it is the trombonist who does the announcing & the singing. I do that, and insist that I am a “trombonist that enjoys singing” rather than a “singer”! A singer is Ella Fizgerald, Frank Sinatra, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I just about posted the other day, the 22 of May, to say something similar as you did, Ross. Looking back not 40 yrs, but only 20 years, when our band, the Canal Street Jazz Band, played in Madrid for the wedding ceremony of the now Spanish King & Queen (in 2004, the were Royal, but not yet King & Queen!). I have a great photo of their Rolls Royce rolling slowly by our large stage on the main drag of Madrid, with the couple waving to us as we played. I don’t actually have a video of the band playing, rather just photos, so can’t post them here on the mailing list. We set a record, though, that day for a Dixieland band, by playing for a tv audience of over a billion people world-wide. I received emails from people as far away as your Australia, South America, and all over the U.S. the next day, with everyone saying “we saw you on tv yesterday! We entertained the waiting crowds of people on the street (waiting for the Rolls drive by) for 2 hours that day. I actually do have a video, one put out by our largest department store and Spanish TV, where the band can be seen, and the announcer says that the Canal Street Jazz Band of Madrid is led by the Armenian American trombonist…etc. Must have been my years working in the Spanish national TV studios as a session musician that the show’s producer came up with that bit! They never consulted me about it. I’ve never put any of that on YouTube, as it would most likely get pulled down as I don’t own the rights to the video.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>All of that is now in the past. The couple’s oldest daughter is now taking on major Royal duties, and there is gossip of a marriage breakup! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Luckily for our band, no breakup has ever been a threat, and we are now in our 57<sup>th</sup> year of steady playing. 3 of us are from the original band, the other 2 “young ‘uns” have been in the band for almost 20 yrs now, and we’re still busy honking. Covid did in a few of the local jazz joints, and the economic crash is 2008 lowered considerably the amount of weddings, company dinners, etc., but we still manage a few gigs a month. I’m 83 now, and continue to practice every day. The trombone is an unforgiving master of my life, and it always needs my attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Anyway, as I said, glad to see someone posting on the list again. Thanks for that, Ross.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jim Kashishian, in Madrid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>De:</span></b><span style='mso-fareast-language:ES'> Ross Anderson <rossanmjband@iprimus.com.au> <br><b>Enviado el:</b> viernes, 24 de mayo de 2024 23:59<br><b>Para:</b> Jim Kash <jim@kashprod.com><br><b>CC:</b> Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com><br><b>Asunto:</b> [Dixielandjazz] FW: "THE NEW MELBOURNE JAZZ BAND in THE USA"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D'>40 years ago this weekend !!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Cheers, Ross<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>.</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Subject:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'> "THE NEW MELBOURNE JAZZ BAND in THE USA"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#990000'>This works .... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95cs77J3_1g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95cs77J3_1g</a><br><br>What a great "blast from the past" ...</span><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>