Guest post from Ron…
I wanted to make an announcement regarding a new gig that is coming up.
The Ron Kieper Jazz Quartet will be performing for CDA’s Artwalk July 9th from 5-8 pm. The event will take place outside in Sherman Square on Sherman Avenue. This is shaping up to be a great event.
Hope your summer is going well!
-Ron Kieper
Guest post from Mr. Ho…
Hello fans!
Hope everyone is enjoying beautiful weather in the Northeast USA. Not sure how it is elsewhere. Today, Sunday, at 4pm ET, if you are in your car or by the computer, I will be a guest alongside our fellow Wednesday-night band the Klezwoods on Dana Westover’s WUMB (91.9FM Boston) radio show entitled “Folk Odyssey.” You can listen online too; see the top left corner of the Folk Odyssey page. A small Klezwoods group will perform some klezmer live (myself on doumbek and riq) and I might play a track or two of the Orchestrotica Mini’s demo and maybe even some Esquivel big band cuts.
Johnny D's
Reminder: Orchestrotica Mini show this Wed, June 30 @ 8pm
Opening for the jew-jazz sounds of the Klezwoods (check out their CD “Oy Yeah (Dig)“). Hey, that’s their self-given tagline not mine! The Orchestrotica Mini starts the night off at 8pm at Johnny D’s, 17 Holland Street, Somerville, Mass., (617) 776-2004, with one long set of original music by Mr. Ho, and exotica classics. Please RSVP to the Facebook event and “Like” us if you like us!
Album update
It’s official: a full-length album will be tracking the last weekend of July 2010! We’re shooting for a fall release of fresh, new exotica music by Mr. Ho and performed by the wonderful talents of Geni, Noriko, and Jason. Additionally, if we’re able to get a quorum, the entire big band will also spend an evening recording as much material as possible from our repertoire! Very excited to get this project underway. If you’d like to help us underwrite the recording, note that we will be creating some brackets and donation ranges. Originally, we wanted to make this a bit more flexible/organic on a personal basis, but we understand from some of you that perhaps firm contribution amounts and rewards would be helpful. Got ideas? Let us know! Just hit reply.
Street team and assisting in the recording
We’re looking for some help with promoting shows on the street, flyering the town, and getting the word out about shows. Additionally, we may be looking for an assistant to help out with logistics for the recording project as well. If you’d like to help us out, hit reply.
Until next time, enjoy the summer and have a cocktail (we’re drinking our best imitation Mai-Kai Special Reserve Daquiris),
Mr. Ho
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Night Bloomin’ JazzMen, trumpeter Keith LaMotte’s 10-piece “Little Big Band” will take the stage at Ichiban, at 202 W. Third, at 9 p.m. Saturday, June 26. The group some remember for its years playing at the Ridpath Hotel has reunited and is playing this downtown sushi restaurant till 12:30 a.m. Saturday night. Cover charge is $5.
Local jazz guitarist Nick Schauer will be performing at Laguna Cafe, at 4304 S. Regal, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 25, and Saturday, June 26. Friday night, he’ll be taking the stage with jazz pianist Danny McCollim, and singing saxophonist Craig Landron will join him Saturday night. Reservations are recommended. For more information, call 509-448-0887.
June 25th & 26th, 2010
78s, LPs, CDs, Memorabilia, Rare Films
Hilton Woodbridge
120 Wood Avenue South
Iselin, NJ 08830
Reservations: Call either the toll free number 1-800-HILTONS (800 445-8667) or the Hilton Woodbridge (732) 494-6200. Mention JAZZ RECORD COLLECTORS GROUP to get discount.
Rate with discount is $119.00 + tax per night. Please note: There are a limited number of rooms available at the discount rate.
2010 JAZZ BASH FILMS
Friday, June 25, 2010 8:00 PM:
Jazz collector and film historian David Weiner will present two hours of rare film and TV clips.
This year’s program offers a pretty eclectic mix of music and performers – hopefully something for everyone!
CARTOONS! – MY PAL PAUL (1930) and NO OTHER ONE (1936) -
Walter Lantz’s little-known follow-up to his color cartoon in THE KING OF JAZZ, recycling the movie’s songs. Then Hal Kemp & Skinnay Ennis (plus Wiffle Piffle) invite us to follow the bouncing ball!
GUS ARNHEIM & HIS ORCHESTRA (1927) – one of the earliest Vitaphone band shorts, catching this hot West Coast band a year before its first record date – pre-Russ Columbo and Bing Crosby! New Orleanian Ray Lopez is one of the trumpeters; future bandleader Jimmie Grier is on saxophone and sings in the vocal trio (he’s on the left). Notice how the banjoist switches to guitar and walks over to an off-screen microphone to play an obbligato to the vocal trio. They play “Sing Me a Baby Song” and “Who-oo? You-oo, That’s Who!”
ODJB, MBRB, etc. (1936-37) – three selections from a series of Nu-Atlas musical shorts. First, a rare clip by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (LaRocca, Shields, Edwards, Robinson, Sbarbaro) – “Original Dixieland One-Step”; next, Lucky Millinder and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band – “Ride, Red, Ride.” Don Byas on sax; Frank Galbraith on trumpet; also Bill Doggett on piano and drummer Shadow Wilson. Third, Erskine Hawkins’ Band – “Deviled Ham.” The soloists are “Dud” Bascomb, first trumpet solo; Erskine Hawkins, second trumpet solo; Bill Johnson, alto sax; Paul Bascomb, tenor sax; Heywood Henry, baritone sax.
LEO WATSON & THE SPIRITS OF RHYTHM (both 1941) – A Soundie by Eddie Cantor imitator Jackie Green – “Alabamy Bound” – and a number from the feature, SWEETHEART OF THE CAMPUS – “Tom, Tom, the Elevator Boy.” Leo Watson is prominently seen in both, along with guitarist Teddy Bunn and Wilbur & Douglas Daniels, plus bassist Wilson Myers.
LAMBERT, HENDRICKS & ROSS & JOE WILLIAMS & COUNT BASIE (1959) – “The King.”
FRANK ROSOLINO QUARTET (1962) – playing Monk’s “Well You Needn’t,” with Mike Melvoin, piano; Bob Bertaux, bass; Nick Martinis, drums.
JACK TEAGARDEN (1952) – “Stars Fell on Alabama,” with Charlie Teagarden & Ray Bauduc.
EARL HINES (1963) – “Love is Just Around the Corner,” with John Green, bass; Earl Watkins, drums.
WOODY HERMAN (1963) – Bill Chase’s beautiful arrangement of “A Taste of Honey,” with Chase on trumpet and Bobby Jones (I think) on tenor.
LES BROWN (1951) – “Dance of Renown” and “Billboard March” – Stumpy Brown & Butch Stone dance; Tony Rizzi (guitar), Dave Pell (sax), Wes Hensel (trombone) and Jack Sperling (drums) solo.
DISTRAXION (2007) – a funny little digital cartoon about the perils of “smooth jazz” in the workplace.
TOMMY DORSEY (1944) – two musical numbers that were cut from THRILL OF A ROMANCE. Bob Allen, Bonnie Lou Williams & the Sentimentalists sing “I Should Care” and the King Sisters vocalize “Please Don’t Say No.”
LOUIS ARMSTRONG (June 1952) – a solo TV appearance on the COLGATE COMEDY HOUR, playing “Basin Street Blues” and “Bugle Call Rag.”
SAUTER-FINEGAN ORCHESTRA (May 1954) – from the COLGATE COMEDY HOUR, playing Bill Finegan’s “Midnight Sleighride” and Eddie Sauter’s “Holiday.” I think that’s Joe Venuto running from orchestra bells to xylophone, holding sheet music at one point to read his part!
ETHEL WATERS (1959) and HOAGY CARMICHAEL (1961) – two memorable guest spots from THE TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD SHOW.
DUKE ELLINGTON (1965) – “Stormy Weather” and “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.” From a TV tribute to Harold Arlen, who wrote both songs for Cotton Club Revues. Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Lawrence Brown, Louis Bellson and Paul Gonsalves solo.
AL JOLSON (1930) – a two-color Technicolor clip from MAMMY – “Why Do They All Take the Night Boat to Albany?”
HENRY HALL (1935) – the BBC Dance Orchestra play “Just Little Bits and Pieces.
JACK BUCHANAN & ELSIE CARLISLE (1936) – “I’m in a Dancing Mood” from THIS’LL MAKE YOU WHISTLE.
RADIO PARADE OF 1935 (made in 1934) – two Dufaycolor numbers from this lavish British revue film. Alberta Hunter sings “Black Shadows” and the Teddy Joyce Band with Fred Conyngham, Peggy Cochrane (Mrs. Jack Payne) and the Carlyle Cousins perform “There’s No Excusin’ Susan.”
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Presented By Ron Hutchinson
Two Shows 4:30PM & 8PM
4:30 PM SHOW
1)Minnie The Moocher – Paramount Talkartoon 1932
2) Tal Henry & His North Carolinians – Vitaphone 1929
3) MAMMY Vitaphone Trailer – WB 1930
4) MAMMY Technicolor Excerpts – WB 1930
5) Harold Arlen – Paramount Pictorial 1933
6) Don Bestor & His Orchestra – Paramount 1936
7) Grace Johnston & Her Indiana Five- Vitaphone 1929
Wille, West & McGinty in “Plastered” – Paramount 1930
9) Charles Ahearn & His Millionaires – Vitaphone 1934
10) BRITISH PATHETONE 1930 –36 Excerpts
a) Billy Cotton & His Band
b) Stroh Violin Duo
c) Jack Payne Band
d) Forsythe, Seaman & Farrell
e) Roy Fox & His Orchestra
f) Mario DiPietro & His Band
g) Al Bowlly
11) MEET THE BOYFRIEND – Paramount 1930 – Lillian Roth
Venuti & Lang opening music & background
8:00 PM SHOW
1) The Five Locust Sisters – MGM Movietone 1928
2) “Rambling Round Radio Row” – Vitaphone 1934
3) The Audition – Vitaphone 1932 Hannah Williams
4) “Getting A Ticket” – Paramount 1930 Eddie Cantor
5) Excerpt from “Flying High” MGM 1931
6) Excerpt from “Myrt & Marge” Univ. 1934 Ted Healy / Stooges
7) “The Wishing Stone” – Dave Apollon & Orch. Vitaphone 1935
Excerpt from “Paramount On Parade” – 1930
9) BRITISH PATHETONE 1930 – 40 Excerpts
a) The Radio Three
b) Pauline Ward, tap dancer
c) Syd Milward & The Nitwits
d) Jack Hylton’s Band
e) Harry Roy & His Band
f) Sophie Tucker
g) Elsie Carlisle
h) Joe Loss & His Band
i) The Maestro Singers
j) Al Bowlly
k) Max & Harry Nesbitt
l) The Jesters – Radio imitators
m) George Erlich’s Orchestra
10) STARS OF HARLEM
a) Sissle & Blake – DeForest Phonofilm 1923
b) Ethel Waters – “On With The Show” – Vitaphone 1929
c) Nina Mae McKinney – “Hallelujah” MGM 1929
11) Excerpt from “They Learned About Women” MGM- 1929
Van & Schenck, Nina Mae McKinney – “Harlem Madness”
THE VITAPHONE PROJECT was founded by Ron Hutchinson in 1991 and seeks out lost 16” soundtrack discs and mute film elements of 1926-30 sound-on-disk talkie shorts and features for restorations. To date, over 3500 disks have been found, and over 100 shorts and 10 features have been restored, in cooperation with UCLA, Warner Brothers, BFI, The Library Of Congress, and private collectors.
The next screening of restored Vitaphone shorts is at Film Forum in NYC on 7/20/10.
Directions
By car: Hotel is immediately off Garden State Parkway exit 131A. Commercial vehicles are not permitted on the Garden State Parkway. If you have commercial license plates, please contact hotel for directions.
By public transportation: From Penn Station in New York City, take NJ Transit (Northeast Corridor Line / NEC) to the Metropark Station. (Do NOT take train to Woodbridge station.) There are at least two trains per hour outside the peak travel time, with travel time being about 45 minutes. Trains stop at Penn Station in Newark and Newark Liberty International Airport. … From Philadelphia 30th Street Station, take SEPTA to Trenton, NJ and transfer to NJ Transit NEC. Trains from Trenton run approximately once hourly, more frequently after 4 pm.
From Metropark station or any point within a 5 mile (8 km) radius of the hotel, a free shuttle is available to hotel guests and attendees of the Bash. Call the hotel ahead of time for shuttle pickup.
Admission & Vendors
General admission: $20.00 covers buyer’s admission for two days (Friday & Saturday). After 5:00 pm Friday (including Saturday) and all day Saturday admission is $10.00. Early buyers will be admitted Thursday evening after 7:30 pm for $40.00.
Doors open 8:00 am on Friday & Saturday.
Vendor space: All tables are 6 ft x 3 ft. Cost in advance is $70.00 per table for 2 days, $45 for Friday only or $30 for Saturday only. A 50% deposit is required. On or after June 24th, cost will be $80.00 per table (2 days) on a space available basis.
Dealer Setup: Dealers may set up on Thursday night after 7:30 pm. The room will not be available prior to that hour.
Rare vintage videos each day: Admission free with Bash admission or $5 each for film show only.
Friday, 8:00 PM: Jazz collector and film historian David Weiner will present two hours of rare film and TV clips.
Also, after the films, rare record playoffs / challenges hosted by Henry Schmidt.
Saturday: Ron Hutchinson, co-founder of The Vitaphone Project, will present a largely previously unseen collection of early sound jazz and vaudeville short subjects. Two different shows: First show from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM and second show beginning at 8:00 PM.
To be added to the mailing list for the Jazz Record Collectors’ Bash, contact:
Art Zimmerman
P. O. Box 158
Jericho, NY 11753-0158
(516) 681-7102
Wednesday, June 23 from 8 p.m. – 12 midnight
Steamers Jazz Club, 138 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton, CA, 714-871-8800, Reservations Recommended, Peggy Duquesnel – Piano / Vocals, Ernie Nunez – Bass, Kendall Kay – Drums, Mike Higgins – Guitar
CD Review: Summertime Lullaby
Jazz Inside – May 2010- by Bob Gish
Summertime, summertime. Take a drive. Do what you feel. Or so is the advice of one popular songster of years past.
Yes, good old summertime when the livin’ is easy – and so is this recording by Peggy Duquesnel and company. Her “Drivin’ Blues” moves you along a melodic highway complete with high gain soloing by one of the great contemporary guitarists, Grant Geissman.
Duquesnel’s vocals, be they bluesy or joyful (such as her playful time with “Mack the Knife”) are tailored to the many moods of the season. And one of those dominant moods is romance, evidenced here by a quartet of romantic standards, all of which receive their due diligence, including a rubato opening to one of the most emblematic of summertime tunes, “Fly Me to the Moon,” which, once launched, moves full throttle into a swinging voyage, accelerated, once again, by the octave licks of Geissman.
“The Days of Wine and Roses,” “My Romance,” “On Green Dolphin Street” and the title track, “Summertime Lullaby” (composed by Duquenel along with “Drivin’ Blues,” “In the Quiet Hours,” and “Promised Land”) demonstrate that lyricists know the ins and outs of composition and arrangement, melody and rhythm put to words – or is it vice versa? With Duquesnel one can’t be sure which came first or whether it really matters.
Some of her solo work, such as “Satin Doll” and “Take the ‘A’ Train” manifest themselves as heartfelt tributes to their respective composers, peer to peer, as it were. “Quiet Hours” is a sentimental pledge to enduring love, regardless of the mutability of the seasons. “Promised Land,” done in a soft bossa nova style, reasserts an eternal hope for true love, that time so enhanced by summer when true romance seems to find its own way.
It’s apparent that these original love songs were inspired, as the composer avows, by time spent with her husband. Be that as it may, the overall message, whatever the times the Mr. and Mrs. spent together in love, the impulse of summer, if not the actual season, is everlasting and, as such, most worthy of Duquesnel’s considerable talents.
Peggy’s other CDs are Show Me Your Way and “Where is Love?”
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