Celebrating the Joy of Jazz
Mike and Roscoe
Music by Harry Akst, lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young, introduced by Eddie Cantor in Pittsburgh way back 1923 and performed here by Mike Owen and his New Orleans Specialists
at Tad Newton’s Walnut Tree Jazz Club, Blisworth, Northants, in December, 2014,
93 years later!
Dinah never dies! Jazz never dies!
Mike Owen (trombone), Karl Hird (clarinet), Rosco Birchmore (bass), Brian Mellor (guitar) and “Baby Jools” (drums)
Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz
The Club’s New Year’s Eve and January/February Programme is all about
KEEPING JAZZ LIVE AND ALIVE
Wednesday, December 31st • 8.30pm until 00.30 am
Graham Trevarton
Celebrate the New Year with Plymouth Jazz Club’s Traditional Jazz Party.
Great entertainment from the specially formed ‘Enjoy Yourself Jazz Band’ with
Graham Trevarton. Finger buffet provided. British Legion Bar.
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission (by ticket only) £15
Tickets in advance: Tel: 07986 054942
Sunday, January 18th • 7.00 for 7.30pm
A long-established traditional jazz band based in Exeter
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission £9, Members £7, Full-Time Students £5 Tickets on the door.
Tel: 01752 721179
Sunday, February 1st • 7.00 for 7.30pm
Carol Gasser
Terry Sloggett
Jazz in the West Coast style of Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, etc.
Featuring ex-Ivy Benson saxophonist Carol Gasser and favourite Plymouth saxophonist
Terry Sloggett making a guest appearance.
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission £9, Members £7, Fulltime Students £5 Tickets on the door.
Tel: 01752 721179
Sunday, February 15th • 7.00 for 7.30pm
The Savannah Jazz Band
Highly popular traditional jazz band from Yorkshire, making it’s annual visit to the Club
The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Crownhill, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Admission £9, Members £7, Full-Time Students £5 Tickets on the door.
Tel: 01752 721179
Gig information and general enquiries:
(01752) 721179
Fanny Abela has introduced me to the Spanish based “Albert Bello and Oriol Saña Experiment”. Albert and Oriol are two distinguished Spanish musicians who are featuring scintillating and daring improvisations based on Django Reinhardt’s melodies.
Fanny wrote to me: “The virtuosity of Albert and Oriol on stage, their positive attitude and their connection with the public, keep the audience in suspense throughout their shows. Thanks to their huge musical background, Albert and Oriol present a warmth in their unique yet recognisable style, mixing jazz, gipsy swing, bluegrass and classical music.”
To learn more about this project, please visit: http://experiment.es/ or email: [email protected]
Here are Albert Bello and Oriol Saña performing Django Reinhardt:
And what better Christmas scene than my painting of The Sun Inn, Lemsford. Especially as Ginny and I returned to the village, our wonderful home for 19 years, and to The Sun to join so many old friends at their joyous village Christmas Party last weekend. Including village jazz man, Bob Thomas of Thomcat Fame.
I wrote this poem to go with the painting. Perhaps it captures the warmth of Christmas conviviality.
To complete the ensemble, here is my Art&Verse print of Hushed Lemsford
My very best wishes to you all for Christmas and The New Year!
Editor & Proprietor of Jazz&Jazz
Even if it doesn’t begin at the beginning I think you will agree with me that this YouTube is rather special.
I was caught changing over my “lens camera” and sometimes I wish I knew the numbers ahead of time. But please enjoy Sophia Ripley and “Drummer Boy” Ronnie Fenn, along with Alan Wakeman (saxophone), Nick Pugh (electric bass) and Mr Olney himself, Alan Haughton on keyboard, in their magical rendition of “The Little Drummer Boy”. The occasion? Olney Jazz Club’s Christmas Bash.
Best viewed in High Resolution
Photos & YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz
Simon Spillett
Email: [email protected]
Tel: Tad Newton 01604 858549
Photos © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz
Gerry Birch
Just a line to let everybody know our third Christmas Party at the Star in Old Wives Lees, Kent, takes place on Thursday 18th December. The host band this year is the Tuxedo Jazz Band and all attending musicians will be invited to perform during the evening. A free buffet will be available throughout the evening and we will have our usual huge Christmas Raffle.
This will be the last session for 2014. We recommence in the New Year on Thursday
8th January.
Gerry Birch
Tuxedo Band Leader Dave “Jaik” Hills
So if you are an East Kent jazz fan or are within striking distance of Old Wives Lees, be there. You will be warmly welcomed to join in the festivities by The Star’s regular jazz fans.
For further details and directions email Gerry at [email protected] or call The Star on 01227 730213.
Earlier this year at The Star
“At A Georgia Camp Meeting” a ragtime number by Kerry Mills written for piano way back in 1897 performed by Gerry and his Stour Valley Jazz Band:
Photos & YouTube © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz
Amy and Richard with John Watson, drums; Bill Coleman, bass and Alan Haughton guesting on keyboard.
Following Amy’s recent announcement about their chosen future in jazz, Tad Newton was delighted to feature the Amy Roberts/Richard Exall Quintet at The Walnut Tree Jazz Club in Blisworth, Northants, Sunday lunchtime, 7th December.
Richard was especially pleased to welcome fans who left home at 5.30am to travel to the gig – including a group of Seaside Shuffle Jazz Club fans from Ramsgate in Kent – applauding them for going to such lengths in supporting live jazz.
So thank you Amy and Richard for a great session. And thank you Tad for live jazz in Northants and Bedfordshire at the Walnut Tree in Blisworth, The Castle in Wellingborough and at Bedford Golf Club, and for featuring great bands with young jazz musicians such as the RichardExall/Amy Roberts Quintet. With teamwork like this, live jazz has a great future.
Here is a YouTube filmed at The Walnut Tree session of just one of the numbers from the Quintet’s very latest CD “WHY NOT?”. As Amy explains, “Hushabye Mountain” is a ballad by Robert and Richard Sherman from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Amy is so mellow on flute and Richard stars as Dick Van Dyke.
Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler
On Thursday, 4th December, Sammy Rimington made a hugely acclaimed return to The Black Bottom Club in Northampton, along with Finlay Milne, Mike Owen, John Richardson, Brian Harding, Colin Richardson and Ivor Johnson. Since he last played the club it’s taken on a new dimension and incorporated “Aunty Ruth’s Private Members Bar”.
Besides festival appearances, for the past few years I’ve made it to Sammy’s gigs in Chilham, Kent, where I was also privileged to attend his book signing in March, 2013. But this year I couldn’t make it to Chilham and so was over the moon to hear about his “Aunty Ruth” gig within striking distance of my new address.
A Wonderful Evening
So thank you Sammy and Louise for the big welcome on the night. And thank you also to Tad Newton for coming along with me and navigating me through the Northampton maize to the hidden venue!
Creative Editing
Like so many jazz clubs, The Black Bottom Club isn’t the most conducive for filming but with some “creative” editing I hope I’ve captured the ethos of a wonderful evening in the following YouTubes.
Peter M Butler
Editor & Proprietor, Jazz&Jazz
Photos & YouTubes © Peter M Butler, Jazz&Jazz
