{"id":3002,"date":"2015-03-15T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2016-03-27T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T13:17:02","slug":"3002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"Mahogany Hall Stompers, 13th March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAHOGANY HALL STOMPERS<\/strong> entertained us here at FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB<\/strong> on Friday, 13th<\/span><\/sup> March 2015<\/strong> and\u00a0everyone showed\u00a0they really enjoyed the music and banter that was created by band leader BRIAN GILES<\/strong> (cornet) and the boys. Brian had booked TIM HUSKISSON<\/strong> on reeds, REX O\u2019DELL<\/strong> on trombone & vocals, \u2018SOUTHEND BOB\u2019 ALLBUT<\/strong> on banjo & vocals, CHRIS MARCHANT <\/strong>on drums and EDDY JOHNSON<\/strong> on double bass. I asked for\u00a0everyone to come with dance shoes to the fore, for a wonderful evening of happy jazz. Well you judge for yourselves – cos yes, we had fun. For a start, Brian (with his lovely Yorkshire sense of humour and accent, not forgetting his cornet playing) is always a joy and manages to bring a great choice of tunes to play. They don\u2019t often play repeats, unless especially requested to do so, but still managing to choose great favourites.\u00a0 Their first number, sung by Bob, was \u2018Cake Walking Baby\u2019<\/em>, one loved by most bands and a favourite of dancers too, due to its jaunty tempo.<\/p>\n

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Mahogany Hall Stompers at Farnborough Jazz Club on 13th March 2015. Leader BRIAN GILES (crnet), TIM HUSKISSON (rds), REX O\u2019DELL (trmb&vocs), \u2018SOUTHEND BOB\u2019 ALLBUT (bnjo&vocs), CHRIS MARCHANT (drums) & EDDY JOHNSON (d.bass). Photo by Mike Witt.\u00a0 (tap on photo to bring up sharp picture)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Mahogany Hall Stompers at Farnborough Jazz Club on 13th March 2015. (LtoR) Chris Walker (drums), Tim Huskisson (clarinet), Brian Giles (trumpet) & ‘Southend Bob’ Allbut (banjo). Photo by Mike Witt.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve got to mention \u2018One Sweet Letter From You’<\/em>, because I jotted down \u2018great clarinet playing from Tim\u2019, well he is terrific. My next jotting was Rex singing \u2018Everywhere You Go\u2019<\/em>. Rex is another talent we are lucky to enjoy at Farnborough \u2013 am I gushing? Sorry! Well, I can still gush some more, because the next song \u2018Just Squeeze Me\u2019<\/em>, brought on the dancers – in fact the dance floor was packed.\u00a0 That\u2019s just what I like to see. Rex sang the next number too, \u2018You Always Hurt the One You Love\u2019<\/em> (I\u2019m sure he never has \u2013 he\u2019s too nice \u2013 ha). Then we came to the dance floor to enjoy our line-dance to \u2018Moose March\u2019<\/em>, really fabulous. Next came everyone\u2019s favourite by Bob, \u2018I Wanna Be A Dog\u2019<\/em>. He composed his own version and is not allowed to go home now, without singing it for us and yet, still there are people who haven\u2019t heard it \u2013 it\u2019s a real fun number.<\/p>\n

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Chris Marchant (drums) & ‘Southend Bob’ Allbut (banjo) of Mahogany Hall Stompers at Farnborough Jazz Club, 13Mar2015. Photo by Mike Witt.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Rex followed on with singing a mixture of \u2018The Charleston<\/em>\u2019 tunes and we loved performing our line dance again to this. Well, it is a great tune for the dance. More and more people are joining in \u2013 it\u2019s a little bit of fun, nothing fancy and nothing intricate, just beaming faces from the dancers. I put two big stars against the next song \u2018I\u2019ve Got Them Too Good To Be True Blues\u2019<\/em>, because there were some brilliant solos from everyone. It was strange they played the next number \u2018When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam\u2019, <\/em>because it was played by last week\u2019s band and I hadn\u2019t written their newsletter, till after this evening. It is always weird like that, just how tunes do follow on by chance, when you think how many millions of popular jazz tunes there are to choose from. But then that is what is wonderful about composers \u2013 to think they can still come up with something \u2018new\u2019. So please come back for more, won\u2019t you? The Martyn Brothers with their magic are here next Friday AND<\/strong> wowie, don\u2019t get too excited, one of our raffle prizes will be an Easter Egg, now we\u2019re spoiling you \u2013 ha.<\/p>\n

Keep jazzin\u2019<\/p>\n

Diane and Keith<\/p>\n

\u2018Cake Walking Babies\u2019 \u2013 Clarence Williams, Henry Troy and Chris Smith (1924)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Everywhere You Go\u2019 \u2013 (m&l) Larry Shay, Joe Goodwin & Mark Fisher<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018I Wanna Be A Dog\u2019 \u2013 <\/em>Barry Louis Polisar<\/em> (1979) & re-vamped by \u2018Southend Bob\u2019 Allbut<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018I\u2019ve Got Them Feelin\u2019 Too Good Today Blues\u2019<\/em> \u2013 (m) Mike Stoller, (l) <\/em>Jerry Leiber<\/em> (1975)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Just Squeeze Me\u2019 \u2013 (m) Duke Ellington, (l) Lee Gaines (1941)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018One Sweet Letter from You\u2019 \u2013 (m) Harry Warren, (l) Lew Brown & Sidney Clare (1927)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018<\/em>Moose March\u2019 \u2013 Hans P. Flath (1910)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018The Charleston\u2019 \u2013 (m) James P. Johnson, (l) Cecil Mack (1923)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam\u2019 \u2013 Irvin Berlin (1912)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018You Always Hurt the One You Love\u2019 \u2013 (m) Doris Fisher, (l) Allan Roberts (1944)<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAHOGANY HALL STOMPERS entertained us here at FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB on Friday, 13th March 2015 and\u00a0everyone showed\u00a0they really enjoyed the music and banter that was created by band leader BRIAN GILES (cornet) and the boys. Brian had booked TIM HUSKISSON on reeds, REX O\u2019DELL on trombone & vocals, \u2018SOUTHEND BOB\u2019 ALLBUT on banjo & vocals, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mahogany-hall-stompers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}