{"id":656,"date":"2014-07-28T12:35:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T12:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=656"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:17:23","slug":"phoenix-dixieland-jazz-band-25th-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Dixieland Jazz Band, 25th July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PHOENIX DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND<\/strong> was our band on<strong> 25<sup>th<\/sup> July 2014<\/strong> at the <strong>Farnborough Jazz Club<\/strong>. Leader <strong>ROBIN COOMBS<\/strong> had an excellent line-up with <strong>PAUL HIGGS<\/strong>\u00a0on trumpet, <strong>BILL TODD<\/strong> on trombone,\u00a0<strong>DAVE BARNES<\/strong>\u00a0on piano,\u00a0<strong>ROGER CURPHEY<\/strong> on double bass,\u00a0<strong>JOHN STUART<\/strong>\u00a0on banjo &amp; guitar and\u00a0<strong>ALAN CLARKE<\/strong>\u00a0on drums. Their performance was as expected just wonderful, they all compliment one-another so well. So how did the evening progress? Well, their first number was <em>\u2018Strutting with some Barbecue\u2019<\/em>. I do hope you are not getting too bored with any repeat adjectives, because here comes one! They started brilliantly! Next number I jotted down was <em>\u2018Georgia On My Mind\u2019<\/em>, sang by Bill, who has a very pleasant jazz voice. The dancers certainly enjoyed my next choice, <em>\u2018Jazz Me Blues\u2019<\/em>and then Dave gave the ragtime number <em>\u2018Wolverine Blues\u2019<\/em> a great run for our money. Bill sang<em> \u2018White Cliffs of Dover\u2019<\/em>, with everyone playing fantastically, encouraging more dancing too.\u00a0 Paul, with his shiny green coloured trumpet gets better (if that is at all possible) every time we hear him. <em>\u2018West End Blues<\/em>\u2019 was one he wowed us with \u2013 a wonderful melodic trumpet. As for Alan\u2019s drumming with <em>\u2018Caravan\u2019<\/em>, his solo was full of excitement and one can see why he is also a drum teacher. The rest of the engine and front line were superb too.\u00a0 As I said last week, nothing like \u2018live\u2019 entertainment. It was lovely to see a couple of new faces (hope you come back), especially as some regulars were unable to make it (for very good reasons), although they all forgot their letters from their mums!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diane and Keith<\/p>\n<h6><em>\u2018Caravan\u2019 \u2013 (m) Juan Tizol, (l) Irving Mills (1937) <\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u2018Georgia on My Mind\u2019 \u2013 (m) Hoagy Carmichael, (l) Stuart Gorrell (1930) <\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u2018Jazz Me Blues\u2019 \u2013 Tom Delaney (1920)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u2018Struttin\u2019 With Some Barbecue\u2019 \u2013 (m) Lil Hardin Armstrong (Louis\u2019 2<sup>nd<\/sup> wife) (1927), (l) Don Raye (added 1941)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u2018West End Blues\u2019 &#8211; Joe \u2019King\u2019 Oliver, (l) Clarence Williams (1928) (famed by Louis Armstrong)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><em>\u2018White Cliffs of Dover\u2019 \u2013 (m) Walter Kent, (l) Nat Burton (1941)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2018Wolverine Blues\u2019 \u2013 (m) Jelly Roll Morton, (l) Benjamin F &amp; John C. Spikes (1923) <\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND was our band on 25th July 2014 at the Farnborough Jazz Club. Leader ROBIN COOMBS had an excellent line-up with PAUL HIGGS\u00a0on trumpet, BILL TODD on trombone,\u00a0DAVE BARNES\u00a0on piano,\u00a0ROGER CURPHEY on double bass,\u00a0JOHN STUART\u00a0on banjo &amp; guitar and\u00a0ALAN CLARKE\u00a0on drums. Their performance was as expected just wonderful, they all compliment one-another [&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-656","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\/656","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=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farnboroughjazz.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}