NVDJS NEWS June July 2014

NVDJS NEWS

Napa Valley Dixieland Jazz Society

P.O. Box 5494,

Napa, CA 94581

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NAPA VALLEY

DIXIELAND JAZZ SOCIETY

Sunday, June 8 Sunday, July 13

2014 1:00-5:00 pm

Jammers Welcome

Monthly Admission

Donations

NVDJS $8.00

Other Jazz Clubs $9.00

Other Guests $10.00

Youth (12-18 years) $3.00

Children (under 12 years) No charge

NVDJS on the Worldwide Web

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the Napa Valley site www.napavalley.com/events.html

or www.jazzdance.org/NapaJazz

RENEWALS that are DUE

June 8

Embassy Suites 1075 California Blvd

Napa, CA

Mail check made out to: NVDJS, P.O. Box 5494, Napa, CA. 94581

Ray Skjelbred and his Cubs play hot Chicago jazz mixed with New Orleans influences, early swing and plenty of blues. Each musician in this five-piece group is notable in the current traditional jazz scene, and they have many years of playing experience enhanced by a strong historic understanding of the music they have set out to perform. Their recent CD on Jazzology, "Greetings From Chicago" has been highly praised by critics, fans and festival direc-tors alike. The International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal said, "For small group Chicago style, it doesn't get any better than this." The Cubs have been invited to play at Festivals and Jazz Society meetings in Sacramento, San Diego, Fresno, Seattle, Olympia and Phoenix.

on July 13, 2014 1:00 - 5:00

Ray Skjelbred and His Cubs

July 13

Grant Hall-Veteran’s

Home Yountville, CA

Devil Mountain Jazz Band DEVIL MOUNTAIN JAZZ BAND continues to develop their multi-style approach to pre-serving the popular music of the late 1800's through the early 1930's, and the west coast revival jazz of the 1940's. The eight piece band is best known for the two trumpet sounds of the Joe Oliver and Lu Watters bands and the or-chestrated "hot dance" music of the late twenties. You'll also hear DMJB perform ragtime, blues, "Dixieland" standards, gospel and novelty tunes, and an occasional duck-call by Pete Main, or assorted strange- instrument solos by Pete, Noel, and Glenn. The band also recreates the New Orleans-derived hot jazz popularized by Armstrong, Hardin, Beiderbecke, Morton, etc., in Chicago in the late twenties. At many jazz festivals, they present special historical concerts celebrating the music of these jazz greats, and a new special show, “Bix & Bing” , featuring our new cornet player and vocalist, Tom Belmessieri.

Ken Keeler — Banjo, leader Noel Weidkamp — Cornet Tom Belmessieri — Cornet Genn Calkins — Trombone

Pete Main — Reeds Viginia Tichnor — Pano Keith Baltz — Tuba Allan Grissette — Drums

on June 8, 2014 1:00 - 5:00

Ray Skjelbred — Leader, Piano Kim Cusack — Clarinet Katie Cavera — Guitar Clint Baker — Bass Jeff Hamilton — Drums

June

Karen Brooks Anthony

Gerri Eggers

Carol Glover

Elizabeth Candish/ Phil Ingalls

Linda Stevens

July

Rae Ann Berry

Gene & Audrey Maurice

Jazz Around The Bay Area

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President's Message

There’s a lot going on at the Napa Club these days. In April we welcomed Don Neely’s NRA band at the Embassy Suites. They are always a popular addition to our band list and this was no exception. They were at the top of their form and the line up was excellent - a good time was had by dancers and listeners alike. In May Cell Block 7 entertained us at Grant Hall at the Veteran’s Home in Yountville. Cell Block 7 was great as usual and resi-dents at the Vets Home seemed to enjoy it too. It’s always fun to have that band in the house. This was our first visit to Grant Hall and there was a good response from our members. It has a wonderful dance floor and a sound system as well as food and drink available at reasonable prices and there is parking across the street. Phil Ingalls is figuring out a plan for the tables that will be more comfortable for all. In addition, the price is right for the club – we pay for the band, but there is no cost for Grant Hall. On June 8, we will return to Embassy Suites to enjoy the Devil Mountain Jazz Band. It should be a very lively afternoon with a very hot band. Our July, August and September meetings will be held at Grant Hall at the Veteran’s Home. This will be considered a trial and after the September meeting a decision will be made whether to continue or not – up to the Napa board as well as the Vets Home. At our last Board meeting, we decided to contribute some of our Youth Jazz Camp funds to Trad Jass as they have three kids going to camp this year. We don’t have any one interested, so donated a portion of the fee for each of the three talented musi-cians - a nice opportunity to work with Trad Jass. I hope you will all be patient with us as we decide on a venue and will continue to enjoy the music we all love with us. I look forward to seeing you all at Embassy Suites on June 8.

Linda

NVDJS NEWS published by the

Napa Valley Dixieland Jazz

Society P.O. Box 5494, Napa, CA. 94581

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The NVDJS is a non-profit organization

founded to encourage an appreciation of

and education in Traditional, Dixieland,

Ragtime and Swing Jazz.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

and OFFICERS President Linda Stevens

Vice President Marilee Jensen

Secretary Phil Ingalls

Treasurer Phil Ingalls

Directors at Large Don Robertson Gene Campbell

Wayne Taylor

Directors Emeritus

Phil Eggers Dorothy Hoffman

NEWSLETTER Editor - Don Robertson 707-258-9259

e-mail: jdrobertson@att.net

Assist. Editor - Ron Medrud

OTHER POSITIONS Membership Don Robertson

707-258-9259

Publicity

Historian Gene Campbell

707-374-3429

Band Liaison Linda Stevens

707-939-9018

Jam Director Bill Badstubner

707-526-1772

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Jazz in other places Sundays

**Every Sunday**Swing Seven Jazz Band –from 7:00—10:PM at the Hydro Bar and Grill, 1403 Lincoln Ave, Calistoga, No Cover.

**3rd Sunday-Joyful Noise Jazz Band -from 5:30-7:00 PM at the Champa Thai, 3550H San Pablo Dam Road, El Sobrante,

LARGE dance floor, for info call 510-222-1819.

** 3rd Sunday Gold Coast Jazz Band at the Redwood Café. 8240 Old Redwood Highway, Cotati 4-7 PM, No cover Info: Bill Badstubner 707-526-1772 or Jeff Green, 650-892-0448

Tuesdays ** 1st and 3rd Tuesdays-- Ken Brock’s Jambalaya Swing (11 pc Big Band ) } play from 7:30 to 9:30 PM Castle Rock Restaurant ,

,** 2nd and 4th Tuesdays– Chris Bradley’s Traditional Jazz Band } 1848 Portola Avenue, Livermore 925) 456-7100

**1st, 3rd Tuesdays-The Jazzinators (a youth band), play from 7-8pm PM, Pizza Depot. at 43450 Grimmer Rd., Fremont. (510) 656-9911 (an ALL ages Jam Set from 8-9PM.)

Wednesdays

** Every Wednesday- Phil Smith's Gentlemen of Jazz. at Uva Trattoria Italiana, 1040 Clinton, NAPA, 6:30-9:30 PM, Xcellent food.NO cover, for info call (707)-255-6646.

**1st and 3rd Wednesdays - Mission Gold Jazz Band, No Longer at Sunol or Castle Rock — Looking for new venue

Thursdays

** 4th Thursday And That’s Jazz Is Back at High Street Station Cafe, 1303 High Street, Alameda,

Fridays

**Most Fridays-Clint Baker's Cafe Borrone All Stars play in Menlo Park at Cafe Borrone, 1010 El Camino Real, 8-11PM.

** Every Friday The Jelly Roll Jazz Band (five) at the Champa Thai, 3550H San Pablo Dam Road, El Sobrante, 7-10 PM

LARGE dance floor, for info call 510-222-1819. **Every Friday- Phil Smith's Gentlemen of Jazz. at Uva Trattoria Italiana, 1040 Clinton, NAPA, 9:00 PM-12:00 M, Xcellent

food, NO cover, for info call 707-255-6646.

Saturdays ***Devil Mountain , June 14, July 16, 1:30 - 4:30 PM at the Danville Grange Hall, 743 Diablo Rd., Danville, CA. Admission

$15 , BRING YOUR OWN REFRESHMENTS. Check www.jazznut.com, Call Virginia 510-655-6728.

Jazz Clubs 1st Sunday

TRAD JASS of Santa Rosa meets at Ellington Hall 3535 Industrial Drive, Suite B4 Santa Rosa, July 6, Dark, August 3, TBA 1:00-5:30PM. (707) 526-1772 Jammers call (707) 542-3973, members $8, other clubs $9, public $10. 3rd Sunday

NOJCNC meets at the Champa Thai, 3550H San Pablo Dam Road, El Sobrante, June 15 Cell Block Seven

July 20 Fog City Stompers 1:00-5:00 PM info call Tom Belmessieri (925) 432-6532, or Paul Hilton (415) 431-3390 , Jam-mers call Rod Roberts (415) 499-1190 . members $8, other clubs $10, public $12. 4th Sunday

SOUTH BAY TRAD JAZZ SOCIETY, Sunnyvale Elks, 375 N Pastoria Ave, Sunnyvale CA, June 22 Rich Owens’ Thrown Together Jazz Band July 27, Fulton Street Jazz Band 1:00 - 5:00 PM info– Barbara Kinney at (510) 792-5484 , members $8, other clubs $8, public $10.

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Editor’s Notes: Here we are in June and the beginning of Summer. Time is flying by and we are looking at changes as we move up the road to Yount-ville for July through September. There are some tradeoffs as we save some money and hopefully stay in business, but while Grant Hall is spacious has a great dance floor, it is not as elegant as the Embassy Suites. We gain a grand piano and a professionally managed sound system set up for us. Elsewhere, Summer events have started with the Sacramento Music Festival. While their attempts at diversity has resulted in the loss of some opportunities to hear Tra-ditional Dixieland Bands. Many of the di-verse genres are enjoyable as well.. On Fri-day, in addition to Bob Schulz and the Nightblooming Jazz Men, I heard Tom Rigney’s Cajun fiddle , Dave Bennett’s Memphis Boys with exciting Rock n Roll Boogie and Sister Swing. In June and July we will travel north to Lacy Washington with some very good Traditional Dixieland groups from all over the nation. Then there is our own local one day festival at Cline Cellars. Hope to see many of you along the Jazz Trail.

Editor Don Robertson

Ray Ronnei

Grant Hall

A Reminder As detailed elsewhere, our July meeting on the

13th as we return to the Veterans’ Home, will

feature a true Festival Band in town for the

Cline Festival on the previous day.

Ray Skjelbred and his Cubs Play in a variety of styles, with

musicians from various parts of

the country.

Ray on piano is now located in

the Seattle Washington area.

Kim Cusack on reeds comes to

us from Chicago. Katie Cavera, guitar is up

from Los Angeles. We have some local folks

as well with Clint Baker on bass, and Jeff

Hamilton on drums. If you attend the Cline

Festival, save some energy for listening and

dancing to this fabulous group.

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14-Dec Gold Coast Holiday Party

KEN COLYER’S JAZZMEN—"LIVE • REDISCOV-ERED TREASURES FROM THE CLASSIC YEARS" (Upbeat URCD 257). Playing time: 71 mins. 58 secs. Walkin’ with the Kingº*; Baby Won’t You Please

Come Homeº*; Trouble in Mindº†; I Can’t Give You

Anything but Loveº†; Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please

Come Homeº†; Careless Loveº†; Sweet Lorraineº;

Meeting at the Building‡*; Winin’ Boy Blues*; Work-ing Man Blues; One Sweet Letter from You*; Dusty

Rag; Joplin’s Sensation.

Recorded in the late 50’s, locations indefinite but most likely Studio 51 and Eel Pie Island, London. Personnel: Ken Colyer, trumpet, guitar‡, vocal*; Ian Wheeler, clarinet; Mac Duncan, trombone; Ray Foxley, pianoº; Johnny Bastable, tenor banjo; Ron Ward, string bass; Colin Bowden, drums. Rosa Scudder, vocal†. Barry Palser replaces Dyer, trombone; Rimington plays alto. This latest Ken Colyer Jazzmen CD contains recordings that have never been issued previously, although most of the tunes themselves have appeared on other Colyer al-bums. The configuration of the Jazzmen on this CD is what is often called the “classic” one, or what John Griffith, the owner of the tapes from which it derived, calls “Colyer’s finest band.” Colyer is at the top of his game here, totally in command of the derby mute and of the broad vibrato that were among his signatures. He adroitly guides the band in the direction he wants through each of the selections. Dun-can and Wheeler provide superb accompaniment and sup-port, making for a fine front line. As the opening track Walkin’ with the King illustrates, there is always excitement from the ensemble playing, another all-important compo-nent of the Colyer interpretations. The rest of the program is typical Colyer fare, the selections featuring the collective improvisation that Colyer deemed essential to the New Orleans style he was after.

One problem, however, that dogged so many of Colyer’s

recordings is the difficulties with tempo consistency. As seemed to have happened so often, the “controlled ac-celeration,” otherwise known as “rushing,” that was asso-ciated with the band is present. More often than not, Bastable was the guilty party, although he was not the only contributor. Another is that the recording quality falls a bit short. While there is no certainty as to who recorded the per-formances, there is no doubt that it was portable equip-ment run by a non-professional. The balance is off in many of the tracks—probably only one mike was used. The result is that the piano and string bass are almost inaudible on most cuts, and the banjo is over-recorded on others. Also as might be expected, vocals suffer somewhat. All but four of the tracks contain vocals, ei-ther by Colyer or by Rosina Scudder, a singer I had never heard of prior to this release. (According to Mike Pointon’s liner notes, she was a diminutive person, “not much more than three feet tall,” but she did not have a voice to match.) Regrettably, much of her singing is off-mike to one degree or another. Like hers, Colyer’s vo-cals are also victims of the “off-mike” syndrome. Despite these relatively minor shortcomings, Colyer fans will surely want this release, especially those who are completists. Others less familiar with Colyer’s work will gain an insight into what made his bands tick once they get past the recording problems mentioned. It is all there on this CD. In many respects, then, this is “classic Ken Colyer.” It can probably be purchased in the U.S. at Jazzbymail, which stocks Upbeat releases, at www.jazzbymail.com, or at the Upbeat website, www.upbeat.co.uk, which pro-vides for ordering by mail if one clicks on New Releases.

CD REVIEW by Bert Thompson

In Grant Hall at the Veterans’ Home in Yountville

Bill Badstubner Trombone

Rod Roberts Piano

Carol Dutcher Clarinet

Charles Newman Cornet

Bob Sutherland Trumpet

Dave Stare Banjo

Gerry Turner Tuba

April Jammers

Bill Badstubner Trombone

Rod Roberts Piano

Carol Dutcher Clarinet

Bob Sutherland Trumpet

Dave Stare Banjo

Gerry Turner Tuba