I will update with how this progressed.
Diane
I will update with how this progressed.
Diane
Sorry, No Jazz During the Month of January 2022.
The Reserve La Jazz Band plays authentic New Orleans jazz, inspired by Kid Ory, Mutt Carey, Wild Bill Davison, Henry ‘Red’ Allen, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and the early pioneers of jazz, and influenced by the host of star names who followed in their footsteps.
Reserve is a small, predominantly black suburb of New Orleans in St. John the Baptist parish, on the East bank of the Mississippi River. It lies 35 miles upstream from New Orleans French Quarter and 5 miles from the Woodland Plantation in La Place (where Edward ‘Kid’ Ory was born on Christmas Day 1886). Ory was baptized at St Peter Church, Reserve.
In the late 1800’s, pre-teens, Ory formed his first band and honed his skills playing for dances in Reserve, ditching his home made cigar-box banjo for a trombone.
Kid Ory’s importance in the early days of Traditional Jazz is impossible to overstate. He “discovered” the 13 year old Louis Armstrong playing for the Colored Waifs Home band. Early band members included Sidney Bechet, ‘Papa’ Mutt Carey, Joe ‘King’ Oliver, Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone, all of whom went on to be stars in their own right and form their own legendary bands. Ory himself was asked by Buddy ‘King’ Bolden to join Bolden’s band when he was only 9, but his older sister wouldn’t let him as he was too young.
Reserve is where a lot of this this happened in the very early days, until Ory relocated himself and his “Sunshine Orchestra” to New Orleans on his 21st birthday in 1907 (– the words Jass, Jazz, and Jazz Band had not yet been invented!), and was one of the most popular and busiest bands in New Orleans in the earliest years, taking over the top spot from Buddy Bolden who had just been admitted to an asylum from which he would never emerge.
John Louis Ory (1847-1920), a wealthy white relative of Kid, and co-owner of the Woodland Plantation where Kid Ory was born, founded a school in Reserve in 1907 which still exists today, greatly expanded, so the Ory/Reserve link remains. The Woodland Plantation is now a museum dedicated to Kid Ory and also the 1811 Rebellion which started there , which was the only, but unsuccessful slave uprising in the USA.
Info curtesy of Rob.
I will update with a photo of Richard Simmons (piano) at a later date.
* SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT *
After 18 months – we are back! And now on Sunday afternoons
FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB has now moved next-door to the:
FARNBOROUGH KENT SOCIAL CLUB
We are excited to be starting with the 16-piece
MICK COLLINS LEGACY JAZZ ORCHESTRA
playing wonderful Big Band ‘standards’
5th September 2021, 2:00-5:00pm
Entrance: £10
Farrow Fields, next to The Woodman Pub
High Street, Farnborough, Orpington BR6 7BA
(bus route 358)
Information: Keith & Diane 077-041-90009
Free car park, comfortable seating & club-priced drinks
The MARDI GRAS JAZZBAND is back to entertain you this Friday, 13th MARCH 2020 at our FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB (Kent). Trombonist band leader, ROB PEARCE has booked trumpeter LEIGH HENSON and JOHN ELLMER, with his many reed instruments to front the band. In the engine room will be JAMIE PARSONS, playing piano, with STEVE SMITH on double bass and drummer DOMINIC COLES. Rob tells me he has some new tunes for us to enjoy, so looking forward to seeing you all. Don’t worry – we won’t have a crowd of 5,000 and I promise not to enforce your forfeit and kiss you, so you will be safe to come out and enjoy yourselves. Just a reminder, music starts at 8:00pm – ending at 11:00pm. You can get a few dances in during that time, as well as a few pints too – Keith can vouch for that (I suppose I can as well – hmmm). I’ve even got back to bringing out the red tablecloths. Bring your family with you, this band appeals to ‘young tastes’ too, being the music is a real Mardi Gras party flavour. Your hosts, Diane and Keith
(I hope to obtain a photo of Jamie later)