{"id":465,"date":"2014-03-05T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=465"},"modified":"2016-03-05T22:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T22:14:39","slug":"martyn-brothers-jazz-band-7th-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Martyn Brothers Jazz Band, 7th March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018MARTYN BROTHERS JAZZ BAND\u2019 <\/b>produced some brilliant entertainment for us on Friday, 7th<\/sup> March 2014,<\/b> here at our Farnborough Jazz Club<\/b>, with some hot jazz. There were so many smiles everywhere for this highly talented young band.\u00a0 Most of you know these two brothers are sons of that wonderfully flamboyant drummer and band leader, Barry Martyn, who has lived in New Orleans for many years.\u00a0 Emile and Ben were brought up there.\u00a0 It was great to have had Barry play here at Farnborough before he decided to stop touring back here in England (well hopefully for the time being anyway). \u00a0His last performance here was on 18th<\/sup> February 2011 (a copy of that week\u2019s newsletter is posted on their CV page, at least until I can bring back all past newsletters). \u00a0Co-leaders Ben Martyn<\/b> (on double bass\/vocals) and Emile Martyn<\/b> (on drums) had booked Allen Beechey<\/b> (cornet), Adrian Cox <\/b>(reeds) (Hi Adrian!), George Simmons<\/b> (trombone) and John Ruscoe<\/b> (guitar). \u00a0A wonderful line-up and I advised definitely one not to be missed.\u00a0 Disappointingly, some of you were missing, (although some of you couldn\u2019t help it, due to illness).\u00a0 For the rest of you though, it was at your loss, because these guys gave it their all.\u00a0 By the way, where were the letters from your mums, excusing yourselves?\u00a0 To continue, here are a few examples of what they played for us. \u00a0What brilliant solo\u2019s from everyone, especially Emile on drums, with Duke Ellington\u2019s \u2018It Don\u2019t Mean a Thing (If it Ain\u2019t Got That Swing)\u2019. George sang it, with Ben harmonising too.\u00a0 The boys had two funerals to attend this week, so as a result, I think they played the following song with such feeling, you just couldn\u2019t help loving them play \u2018Just a Closer Walk with Thee\u2019.\u00a0 I personally thought \u2018Oh no, not a funeral march, but was I wrong, it was so beautiful and probably the best I have ever heard it played. \u00a0\u00a0The next number I want to mention is one of Keith\u2019s favourites \u2018At the Mardi Gras\u2019, which Adrian sang.\u00a0 It has such a lovely dancing tempo.\u00a0 The dancers had been slow starting in full, leaving it one or two couples only, but once confidence grew, you all had fun. \u00a0Ben has written a few songs and plays them once in a while.\u00a0 About ten years ago, he decided to \u00a0\u00a0write his own version of lyrics to \u2018I\u2019ll Be Seeing You\u2019, with the sentiment of leaving someone behind, but seeing the same moon in the sky.\u00a0 He called it ‘I’ll Watch the Moon’ and they played this one.\u00a0 \u00a0\u2018Running Wild\u2019 was another fabulous song which they performed amazingly.\u00a0 It comes from that brilliant Marilyn Monroe film \u2018Some Like It Hot<\/i>\u2019.\u00a0 I actually wrote \u2018wow, wow, wow\u2018, plus \u2018what trombone playing\u2019 and I\u2019m certain I saw the roof lift up!\u00a0 The next number I jotted down was \u2018Summertime\u2019.\u00a0 Do any of you remember two lovely jazz fans both in their eighties at the time (at least 20years ago), called Trish and Doris?\u00a0 We first met them in the audience at the Lord Napier. Trish used to step up and sing this song, although in her eighties, she would sing in a high key I\u2019m sure she could have sung in her younger days, but by then was too high for her.\u00a0 However, the last time she sang it for us, she sang in a lower key and she was fabulous.\u00a0 I just wanted to give them a mention, nice to remember old friends.\u00a0 Well tonight, Ben sang it (superbly) and they played it as a samba – marvellous. \u00a0We did our usual line-dance to \u2018Lord, Lord, Lord, You Sure Been Good to Me\u2019, what a great laugh with about 7 or 8 of us.\u00a0 Then Ben sang that lovely song \u2018Help Me Make it Through the Night\u2019, a Kris Kristofferson number and wonderful to dance to.\u00a0 The next number was \u2018I\u2019ll Be Glad When You\u2019re Dead You Rascal You\u2019.\u00a0 George (who is only 23yrs old) sang it brilliantly (he even interjected a couple of lines from \u2018When the Saints Go Marching In\u2019).\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry George, although I won a night out with you in our raffle, I will let you off, I don\u2019t want to kill you, we need you back!\u00a0 They rounded off the evening\u2019s entertainment with \u2018I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream\u2019, certainly a great old traditional jazz favourite, in which there was plenty of dancing and audience singing participation.\u00a0 Their old friend, Norman Grodentz, also joined them on clarinet.\u00a0 Another evening we won\u2019t forget.\u00a0 By the way, they are back with us on 6th<\/sup> June 2014, so if you did missed it this time, don\u2019t miss it again.<\/p>\n

Diane and Keith<\/p>\n

P.S.\u00a0 Ben asked if any of us knew what was at No.1 in the hit parade on the day of our birth.\u00a0 Keith\u2019s is \u2018Dancing Cheek to Cheek\u2019 by Irving Berlin, sung by Fred Astaire (also sung by Frank Sinatra).\u00a0 Mine was \u2018There Are Such Things\u2019 by Tommy Dorsey, sung by my favourite male singer, Frank Sinatra! (The song has a line including the word \u2018Rainbow\u2019.\u00a0 Coincidently, I named my team The Rainbows, when I became a manager for Tupperware, a hundred years ago!\u00a0 (However, another website said it was \u2018White Christmas\u2019 also by Irving Berlin, sung by Bing Crosby).\u00a0 Thanks Ben for asking that question, such a fun thought.<\/p>\n

\u2018Help Me Make it Through the Night\u2019 \u2013 Kris Kristofferson (1969)<\/h6>\n
\u2018I\u2019ll Be Glad When You\u2019re Dead You Rascal You\u2019 \u2013 Lovin\u2019 Sam Thaird (1929)<\/h6>\n
‘I’ll Watch the Moon’ \u2013 Ben Martyn (2004)<\/h6>\n
\u2018I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream\u2019 \u2013 Howard Johnson, Billy Moll & Robert A. K. King (1927)<\/h6>\n
\u2018It Don\u2019t Mean a Thing (If it Ain\u2019t Got That Swing)\u2019 \u2013 (m) Duke Ellington, (l) Irving Mills (1931)<\/h6>\n
\u2018Just a Closer Walk With Thee\u2019 \u2013 Traditional Gospel (pre-1860\u2019s – possibly Afro-American)<\/h6>\n
\u2018Lord, Lord, Lord, You Sure Been Good To Me\u2019 \u2013 Traditional Gospel song<\/h6>\n
\u2018Mardi Gras (While We Danced)\u2019 \u2013 (m) Alfred M. Opler, (l) Johnny Mercer (1931)<\/h6>\n
\u2018Running Wild\u2019 \u2013 (m) A. Harrington Gibbs, (l) Joe Grey & Leo Woods (1922)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Summertime\u2019 \u2013 (m) George Gershwin, (l) DuBose Heyward (1933\/34)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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