{"id":614,"date":"2014-06-24T13:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=614"},"modified":"2016-07-19T12:36:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T12:36:56","slug":"lord-napier-hot-shots-2062014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Lord Napier Hot Shots, 20\/6\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE LORD NAPIER HOT SHOTS<\/strong> appeared for the first time at FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB<\/strong> on Friday 20th<\/sup> June 2014<\/strong>. The members of the band were leader MIKE DUCKWORTH<\/strong> (trombone), MIKE JACKSON<\/strong> (trumpet), PAT GLOVER<\/strong> (reeds), LYNN SAUNDERS<\/strong> (banjo), MICK SCRIVEN<\/strong> (double bass & bass sax) and ARTHUR FRYATT<\/strong> (drums) [\u2018live\u2019 – private joke, see below]. Five band members play with the British Airways band and some play regularly with The Lord Napier\u2019s band, one of South London\u2019s most famous jazz pubs (the original house band was Bill Brunskill\u2019s Jazzmen for very many years). Anyhow, the jazz was lovely and they chose to play (amongst others) such numbers as Ruth Etting\u2019s hit \u2018All of Me\u2019, sung by Pat, with Mick (S) playing Bass sax (Mike (J) called it a \u2018drainpipe\u2019). \u2018Basin Street Blues\u2019 was another great number, with Mike (J) singing (he\u2019s got a lovely voice) and I noted Mike (D) playing brilliant trombone. Then Arthur sang next with \u2018Sweet Sue, Just You\u2019, who also has a great jazz voice. Lynn played a fabulous banjo solo. What came next was Arthur, who just shone \u2018doing the business\u2019 on washboard of course, with \u2018Coney Island Washboard\u2019. Lynn sang (yep, another great voice) performing \u2018All I Do Is Dream of You\u2019. Mike (J), mentioning another venue bringing out umbrellas when they played the next number he introduced, namely \u2018Bourbon Street Parade\u2019. Immediately, a \u2018regular\u2019, Steve rushed out to his car, produced some umbrellas and four or five of us did our \u2018parade\u2019, just a lovely bit of fun. Then Arthur changed again to playing washboard to \u2018Nobody\u2019s Sweetheart Now\u2019. Pat was featured next with \u2018Smiles\u2019. Not many people know Pat was an absolutely brilliant whistler, but after having some dental treatment, he has not been able to. I requested him to try, but he was so unsure he would be able to, so didn\u2019t want to upset anyone. However, he did perform fabulously on clarinet instead. Well done Pat. To continue \u2026 once again a star, Arthur played a wonderful drum solo to \u2018Rosetta\u2019, with the whole band, giving their all. What a happy evening of \u2018live\u2019 jazz and I came away (as I\u2019m sure others did) feeling set up for the next week. Thanks guys.<\/p>\n

Diane & Keith<\/p>\n

P.S. Arthur is a very special person in my eyes. I must mention some time ago, I heard Benny Cohen had passed away, a wonderful trumpeter, who had played for us many times. I was about to announce this, when somebody told me Arthur (who was in Mike Daniels\u2019 Delta Jazz Band) had also passed away. Unfortunately, a couple, who were friends of both Arthur and Mike, were in our audience and got in touch with Mike straight away. Saturday morning, the phone went and a voice said \u2018Hi Diane, its Arthur here\u201d. \u201cOh\u201d says I, \u201cWhere are you calling from, up top, or down below?\u201d I was so lucky Arthur took it so well, he could have blown my head off, but we had a good laugh instead. That\u2019s musicians for you!<\/p>\n

\u2018All I Do Is Dream of You\u2019 \u2013 (m&l) Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (1934)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018All of Me\u2019 \u2013 Gerald Marks & Seymour Simons (1931)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Basin Street Blues\u2019 \u2013 Spencer Williams (1926)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Bourbon Street Parade\u2019 \u2013 Paul Barbarin (c. 1953)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Coney Island Washboard\u2019 \u2013 (m) Hampton Durand & Jerry Adams, (l) Ned Nester & Aude<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Nobody\u2019s Sweetheart Now\u2019 \u2013 (m) Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel, (l) Gus Kahn & Ernie Erdman (1924) <\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Rosetta\u2019 \u2013 (m&l) Earl Hines & Henri Wood (1933)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Smiles\u2019 \u2013 (m) Lee S. Roberts, (l) J. Will Callahan (1917)<\/em><\/h6>\n
\u2018Sweet Sue, Just You\u2019 \u2013 (m) Victor Young, (l) Will J. Harris (1928)<\/em><\/h6>\n
N.B. You can find a rare radio 1937 recording of a slower version of \u2018Smiles\u2019 by Judy Garland aged 15yrs on You Tube. Just click on: www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ciHyZqy0R98<\/a> <\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE LORD NAPIER HOT SHOTS appeared for the first time at FARNBOROUGH JAZZ CLUB on Friday 20th June 2014. The members of the band were leader MIKE DUCKWORTH (trombone), MIKE JACKSON (trumpet), PAT GLOVER (reeds), LYNN SAUNDERS (banjo), MICK SCRIVEN (double bass & bass sax) and ARTHUR FRYATT (drums) [\u2018live\u2019 – private joke, see below]. […]<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-napier-hot-shots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}