{"id":442,"date":"2014-02-27T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=442"},"modified":"2016-02-09T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T11:36:10","slug":"urgent-notice-regarding-21st-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Dixieland Jazz Band, 21st February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>PHOENIX DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND <\/b>appeared at our <b>Farnborough Jazz Club <\/b>on<b> Friday, 21<sup>st<\/sup> February 2014<\/b>.\u00a0 Due to a misunderstanding, our pre-advertised band <b>\u2018LIMEHOUSE JAZZ BAND\u2019 <\/b>was unable to come to England (Pianist Martin Litton &amp; His Rhythms replaced \u2018Limehouse Jazz Band\u2019 at the Spice of Life that afternoon).\u00a0 However, at short notice, our good friend &#8211; band leader <b>ROBIN COOMBS<\/b> (clarinettist) very quickly booked his band for us.\u00a0 The musicians were <b>PAUL HIGGS<\/b>\u00a0on trumpet, <b>BILL TODD<\/b> on trombone,\u00a0<b>TIM HUSKISSON<\/b>\u00a0on piano,\u00a0<b>ROGER CURPHEY<\/b> on double bass,\u00a0<b>JOHN STUART<\/b>\u00a0on banjo &amp; guitar and\u00a0<b>ALAN CLARKE<\/b>\u00a0on drums. \u00a0The boys gave us a wonderful spontaneous evening. I didn\u2019t manage to write their first numbers down. The dancing was slow at getting going. \u00a0I think the first number to bring out some dancers was \u2018Up a Lazy River\u2019.\u00a0 Robin was a little concerned not to have seen the dancers on the floor before this, but wherever you go, nobody likes to be first out on the floor and without Gordon and Steve to encourage other dancers (Gordon is out of commission for a while and Steve was at a birthday party elsewhere), it takes a little longer to see our dancers. \u00a0By the time the \u2018Kid\u2019 Ory number \u2018South\u2019 was played, all the dancers were swinging.\u00a0 I just loved the drum intro to the next number, \u2018Hindustan\u2019, a marvellous number.\u00a0 Then Paul played wonderful trumpet to \u2018Chinatown, My Chinatown\u2019.\u00a0 They changed key halfway through too.\u00a0 Then came \u2018Ja-Da\u2019, a number not played too often here and so makes a change.\u00a0 Then the next number in contrast is often played here, but we don\u2019t mind that either, being \u2018Hello Central, Give Me Doctor Jazz\u2019, a great favorite.\u00a0 It was sung by Bill, who has a really good voice and should sing more often.\u00a0 Keith and I listen to him playing (first Monday, monthly) with Mick Collins\u2019 16piece Modern Jazz Orchestra, held in Bromley South H.G. Wells Center.\u00a0\u00a0Isn\u2019t it wonderful how diverse musicians can be.\u00a0 What followed next was a fabulous number called \u2018Love is just around the Corner\u2019 and I had no-one to dance with!\u00a0 Then if that wasn\u2019t enough, on comes Paul playing solo with a \u2018Louis Armstrong intro\u2019, just brilliant, the number of course was \u2018West End Blues\u2019, which was famed by Louis Armstrong. The finale came with \u2018Caravan\u2019 and Alan performed his magic on drums.\u00a0 You might recall from my last comments about him being a drum teacher and if you did follow our Phoenix\u2019s CV page, hopefully you will have looked in on the \u2018You Tube\u2019 recording of him playing a drum duo with his son and if not, please do so now!\u00a0 Phoenix Dixieland\u2019s next date here is to be 18<sup>th<\/sup> May 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>N.B. I can confirm the LIMEHOUSE JAZZ BAND will be appearing with us on 24<sup>th<\/sup> October 2014 as well as at the \u2018SPICE OF LIFE\u2019 that afternoon.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don\u2019t you just love \u2018Live music\u2019?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diane and Keith<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Caravan\u2019 \u2013 (m) Juan Tirol, (l) Irving Mills (1937)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Chinatown, My Chinatown\u2019 \u2013 (m) Jean Schwartz, (l) William Jerome (1910)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Hello Central, Give Me Doctor Jazz\u2019 \u2013 Joe \u2019King\u2019 Oliver &amp; Walter Melrose (1926)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Hindustan\u2019 \u2013 (m) Harold Weeks, (l) Oliver G Wallace (1917)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Ja-Da\u2019 \u2013 Bob Carleton (1918)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Love is just around the Corner\u2019 \u2013 (m) Lewis E. Gensler, (l) Leo Robin (1934)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018South\u2019 \u2013 Thamen Hayes &amp; Bennie Moten (1924) (lyrics added later by Ray Charles)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018(Up A) Lazy River\u2019 \u2013 (m) Sidney Arodin, (m&amp;l) Hoagy Carmichael (1930)<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018West End Blues\u2019 &#8211; Joe \u2019King\u2019 Oliver, (l) Clarence Williams (1928)<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND appeared at our Farnborough Jazz Club on Friday, 21st February 2014.\u00a0 Due to a misunderstanding, our pre-advertised band \u2018LIMEHOUSE JAZZ BAND\u2019 was unable to come to England (Pianist Martin Litton &amp; His Rhythms replaced \u2018Limehouse Jazz Band\u2019 at the Spice of Life that afternoon).\u00a0 However, at short notice, our good friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phoenix-dixieland-jazz-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}