![]() ![]() “WHERE THE WINTRY WINDS DON’T BLOW”: ALBANIE FALLETTA, EVAN ARNTZEN, JEN HODGE, JON-ERIK KELLSO (Cafe Bohemia, January 30, 2020).“MESSIN’ AROUND”: HAL SMITH’S NEW ORLEANS NIGHT OWLS.BEAU KOO RAY: MUSIC FROM RAY SKJELBRED, SOLO and TRIO (JACOB ZIMMERMAN, MATT WEINER) and SOLO AT THE ROYAL ROOM.“WHAT’S THE HURRY?”: ALLAN VACHÉ, TOM FISCHER, JOHNNY VARRO, PAUL KELLER, DANNY COOTS (Atlanta Jazz Party, April 18, 2015).A FRESHMAN ON CHRISTMAS BREAK VISITS JIMMY RYAN’S (December 1942).MELODY MATTERS: FREDDY COLE, BUCKY PIZZARELLI, RANDY NAPOLEON, FRANK TATE, PAUL KELLER, EDDIE METZ (Atlanta Jazz Party, April 25, 2014).A WINNING HONESTY: VIENNA CARROLL and THE FOLK: “SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT”.THE GLORY OF A WORKING BAND: RAY SKJELBRED and his CUBS: KIM CUSACK, CLINT BAKER, KATIE CAVERA, MIKE DAUGHERTY (San Diego Jazz Fest, November 2014).WELCOME THE “VIPER CLUB 4”: DAVE KELBIE, TCHA LIMBERGER, JEROME ETCHEBERRY, SEBASTIEN GIRARDOT (November 22, 2022).SIDNEY CATLETT and FRIENDS at CARNEGIE HALL: CHARLIE SHAVERS, HANK JONES, MARY LOU WILLIAMS, MARJORIE HYAMS, CHARLIE VENTURA, BILL HARRIS, CURLY RUSSELL (April 5, 1947).“HAPPY MEMORIES OF THE BEFORE TIMES,” or FOUR BRIGHT SPARKS PLAY MISTER JELLY: ALBANIE FALLETTA, JON-ERIK KELLSO, EVAN ARNTZEN, JEN HODGE (Cafe Bohemia, January 9, 2020).NORTH, THE OPPOSITE OF, or DELICIOUS SOUNDS ON A SUNDAY NIGHT: DANNY TOBIAS, JAY RATTMAN, JAMES CHIRILLO, ROB ADKINS (The Ear Inn, November 6, 2022).THIS MUST BE THE PLACE: JAZZ BASH BY THE BAY (March 2-5, Monterey, California).See you at the meeting, or another location of your choice. Outdoors, too, and for free, for all the community to hear, which in my book gets them extra credit:Īnd while I was finishing this post, my phone made its noise again, and I saw these words: I am writing this post to assure him that, indeed, his most famous cakewalk was played - by musicians who win the cake as far as I’m concerned: Brian Holland, piano Danny Coots, drums Steve Pikal, string bass Marc Caparone, cornet Evan Arntzen, clarinet. ![]() Michael u went to Joplin Festival did they play my rags Kerry Mills Or they can perhaps get better phones tomorrow.) (People saying “But he’s been dead since 1948! can go in their room and play with their toys. Mills before, but saw that he does subscribe to JAZZ LIVES. This afternoon, my phone gave its special secret tone - somewhere between a canary in mating season and a pelican with its mouth full of fish - and there was a text from ragtime composer and publisher Kerry Mills. One would think she’d never texted before. I won’t bore you with previous instances of this, except to say that Sophie Tucker goes on and on. ![]() The most relevant one here is my phone’s abilities to receive texts from the dead, and they don’t even have to be Verizon subscribers. The others were making their Joplin premieres.Because I am a Nassau County employee, my Verizon phone plan offers special features. She has performed at several past Joplin festivals. Virginia, I learned, has an extensive pedigree not only in ragtime but also in the classical field. These included pianists Peter Bergin, Dick Moulding, Jonathan Levin, and Virginia Eskin. An exemplary roster of performers were on the card, several of whom were new to me. But for the distance, I would attend more often. I attended that event, as well as the 20 editions. This was the first in-person festival since 2019, and the feeling of joy was as evident among the musicians as among the audience. And by then the humidity was creeping up, perhaps to remind us that the weather we had enjoyed the past few days was not the norm in Missouri in June. Well, almost there was a brief light shower during the last set in the Stark tent on Saturday afternoon. After a cold front dumped 2.9 inches of rain on Sedalia, enough to be the most anywhere in the US that day, just before the event opened, the skies cleared and ushered in three days of delightful temperatures and low humidity. The weather gods smiled on this year’s Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival on June 1-4 in Sedalia, Missouri. ![]()
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