The Forest Jazz Band

The forest jazz band was founded in 1977 in the middle of Holland in the neighborhood of Apeldoorn.
The band performed at many jazz clubs in Holland and all over Europe. This performance was recorded at
a concert in the jazz club of The Hague on the 2nd of December 2007. The band will go on tour in
February 2008 to Australia.

Members:
Ton Bos (trombone, band leader)
Peter Ivan (cornet and flugelhorn)
Gerrit Brouwer (clarinet)
Harald Haverkorn (piano)
Ton van Bergeijk (guitar)
Ludo Deckers (bas)
Peter den Boer (drums)

Website:
www.theforestjazzband.com.
Bookings:
Ton Bos Productions
a.r.bos@hetnet.nl

Benny Waters & Hot Antic Jazz Band

Benny Waters - Some of these days 1982
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Some of these days – Benny Waters 1982
Benny Waters & Hot Antic JB 1982.
In the summer of 1982 The Hot Antic Jazz Band played a concert in the town of Uzes just west of Avignon in the southern part of France.
It was just fantastic that they had been able to contract famous alto player Benny Waters to join them, even more fantastic that there was a cameraman with camcorder in the audience.
Michel Bastide, trumpetplayer and leader send me a set of films from this event and we like to share this with you. Benny Waters had a long career, he was born in 1902 in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended the New England conservatory of music where he gave lessons to Harry Carney. He worked with King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson and many others. In 1952 he moved to Paris , from where he performed until his 95th birthday.
John McDonough wrote in Down Beat, "Waters plays it straight down the middle with a sympathetic but contemporary rhythm section, and his strong, gritty-on-demand sound in all registers neither asks nor gives any quarter. His intonation and control are clear and hard as a rock as he twists notes with a raw lyricism. It's that sound more than his ideas that regularly carries his solos to a boil on track after track."
In this tune Hot Antic Jazz Band consists of Michel Bastide on trombone, Jean Francois Bonnel trumpet, Gilles Berrut piano, Jean-Pierre Dubois banjo and Christian Lafevre tuba.

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Willie Ashman Original Jazzband

Band from Holland:
Bob Wulffers (tp, voc), John Boeree (tb), Wim Vreeburg (cl, ts), Rob ten Seldam (bj, g, voc), Geert van Hoften (db), Louis van der Heiden (dr, wb).
Filmed on 06.03.2009 at Jazzclub Mülheim (Germany).
Look at www.willieashman.nl

Exactly Like You - Jazz Vipers

New Orleans Jazz Vipers, live at the AAO National Conference, New Orleans, November 2007

Every Tub Scaniazz

Paul Bocciolone Strandberg (co,voc) Arne Höjberg (tb) Jan Nilsson (cl/ ) Björn Ekman (bjo) Anette Strauss(p) Stefan Kärfve(tuba)Hans Bendroth(wb) Och det var i Dec.1981 SCANIAZZ, was a legendary band from the south of Sweden performing worldwide within the original jazz idiom in the 70's-80's. Anyone interested in their recordings and music can get in touch with their former leader Paul Bocciolone Strandberg through www.paulandhisgang.com
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Propongo a tutti gli amici appassionati di jazz classico il video Clip di questa favolosa Jazz Band svedese:la ScanJazz

The Sheik of Araby - Louisiana Jazz Band

Extrait d'un concert donné par le Louisiana Jazz Band, le 13 octobre 2006, au théâtre Jacques-Coeur de Bourges (France), en faveur d'Amnesty International. (images François Galland)
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Kustbandet-Someday Sweetheart-Benny Carter in Stockholm, Sweden

Kustbandet-Someday Sweetheart
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Someday Sweetheart Carter 1980

Benny Carter in Stockholm, Sweden.
Kustbandet is a big band from the Stockholm area of Sweden. They play in the style of the late twenties and the thirties and do it better than any band I've ever heard. Initially under the leadership of reedplayer Kenneth Arnstrom they started in 1965 or 66 as the Detta Kust Band. In 1969 the name was changed to Kustbandet and today, the band, with many of the same musicians from the seventies, is still playing festivals and concerts all over the world.
These clips are from a midnight concert in the summer of 1980 and the band has Carter as a special guest.
Benny, (1907-2003) played in the late twenties with Don Redman's McKinney's Cottonpickers and started his own band in 1932.
This tune is an piece recorded by King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators in 1926 and must have had a big impact on the then 19 year old Benny Carter.
Kustbandet more or less follows the original Oliver arrangement and Carter is all smiles while taking it in, then the musicians invite him to solo and off it goes, Benny must feel some 50 years younger.
Isn't it beautiful
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il miracolo della musica e del jazz in particolare ! Bianchi,neri,gialli,rossi,verdi etc...Tutti avvertono dentro la loro anima di appartenere ad un'unica , grande,immortale famiglia :
la famiglia dell'uomo
VIVA la musica1Viva il jazz!

Melancholy Blues - Portena Jazz Band 1972

Melancholy Blues - Portena JB 1972
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Melancholy Blues - Portena Jazz Band 1972

Tito Martino and leader Martin Muller announce the band’s playing of the Armstrong classic ‘Melancholy Blues’. Portena plays it a somewhat smaller setting with only one cornet and two saxes in the frontline. An excellent soprano sax solo by Ignacio Mazzanti. I particalarily like the ending in the manner of Louis’ recording but Portena stretches this to good effect.

Youtube is such a wonderful medium for international communucation. I like to mention that without another Brazilan cornet player’s input I would not have been able to get in touch with Tito Martino or Martin Muller, which whom I had some correspondence before he died last July of 2007.
I like to recognize a youtube friend also from Brazil by the name of Joao Massali. Joao is a fine conet player, an educator, he trains young musicians and makes them aware of the beauty of early jazz.
See him play Jelly Roll Morton’s Tom Cat Blues with pianist Alexandre Hage. A fine display of the early jazz approach ( check user alehage)

Mezzrow - Lyttleton 1986

Humphrey Lyttleton and his Band in 1986.
Humph is one of the most unique jazz musicians from the UK.
The tune "Mezzrow" is a 32 bar tune with a wonderful chord pattern to improvise on. One reason or another clarinettist Mezz Mezzrow recorded a tune with these chord patterns several times with his good friend Sidney Bechet
It has always been one of my favourite tunes and wherever we played I tried to fit it into the program. I learned it from one of Humph's recordings.Obviously it was one of Humph's favourites as well.
Here he has set an interesting head arrangement and eventually he changes to clarinet and so do Bruce Turner and Johnny Barnes and the tune ends up with a three clarinet ensemble.This tune is also known as Revolutionary Blues

A good man is hard to find.-Mike Daniels w/- Doreen Beatty

This photograph, and the recording of 'A Good Man', dates from the late 1950's. The recording was made in 'The Dancing Slipper', Nottingham, England on the 13th. June 1959 and features Mike Daniels and his Delta Jazzmen. The line-up comprises (L to R in the photograph) Des Bacon:pno, Arthur Fryatt:dms, John Barnes:clt, Doreen Beatty:voc, Mike Daniels:tpt, Gordon Blundy:tmb, Jeff Walker:bjo, and Don Smith:bss.

Mike Daniels' Delta Jazzmen -Aunt Hagar's Blues

This band was one of the significant contributors to the New Orleans 'revival' in the U.K. between 1955 and 1965. (And they are still playing). Aunt Hagar's Blues was recorded in around 1957 when the line-up was Mike Daniels tpt. Gordon Blundy tmb. John Barnes clt. Des Bacon pno. Geoff Over bnj. Don Smith bs. and Arthur Fryatt dms.
The photograph must have been taken soon after Don Smith and Arthur Fryatt joined the band in 1956 from the 'Pheonix Jazz Band' -as Arthur still has its logo on his bass drum!
More about the Pheonix band will follow when I have completed some more fact finding

At the Jazz Band Ball - KENNY DAVERN, O, KLEIN, L. PATRUNO

At the Jazz Band Ball - KENNY DAVERN, O, KLEIN, L. PATRUNO
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KENNY DAVERN, OSCAR KLEIN, LINO PATRUNO
"At the Jazz Band Ball"
Kenny Davern (clarinet), Oscar Klein (cornet), Lino Patruno (guitar), Roy Crimmins (trombone), Isla Eckinger (bass), Gregor Beck (drums).
October 11 and 12, 1983

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Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a New Orleans band that made the first jazz recording in 1917. The group made the first recordings of many jazz standards, probably the most famous being "Tiger Rag." In late 1917 it changed the name's spelling to "Jazz."

The band consisted of five white musicians who had previously played in the Papa Jack Laine bands, a diverse and racially integrated collection of musicians who played for parades, dances, and advertising in New Orleans.

The O.D.J.B. were billed as the "Creators of Jazz." Trumpeter Nick LaRocca convinced himself (Brunn, 1960), in his old age, that this was literally true, but there is no evidence from the interviews and writings of the other O.D.J.B. members that the rest of the band ever considered it anything more than a snappy advertising slogan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Dixieland_Jass_Band

Struttin' With... - The Harlem Ramblers 1982, H. Lyttelton

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...Some Barbecue, 1982, featuring Humphrey Lyttelton tp and Henry Chaix p.

The Harlem Ramblers Dixieland Jazzband from Zurich, Switzerland was founded in 1955, and, after various changes, settled down in 1969 to a well knit group. The band members were Guenter Sellenath (Tp), Tabis Bachmann (Cl), Thedy Schuetz (Tb), Chris Mitchell (Bj), John Treichler (B), and Gerry Ceccaroni (Dr).

The band is still going strong with the hard core of Guenter, Thedy, Chris, and Gerry. The newest members are Hans Schlaepfer on Bass since 2002, and since 2005, Wastl Berger, Clarinet and Saxophone. For more information, please visit the Homepage. www.harlemramblers.ch

St Louis Blues-Muggsy Spanier

St Louis-Muggsy Spanier
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St Louis Blues Spanier 1964
Trumpet player Muggsy Spanier is specially renowned through his 1939 recordings which were called "The Great Sixteen".
When I was in my late teens I heard most of it on 78's and many of the bands used these 16 tunes as the basis of their repertoire, including our Dutch Swing College Band.
They say that Muggsy played predictably, this might be true to some extent, but he certainly had his own style.
In this clip we have Darnell Howard on clarinet, Ralph Hutchinson (maybe?) on trombone, certainly Joe Sullivan on piano and also some unique bass work by the one and only Pops Foster. I don't recognize the drummer.
Sorry about the picture quality, but the combination of these historic pictures with reasonably good sound is certainly worth this display

Muggsy Spanier Beale Street blues

Muggsy Spanier Beale Street blues
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Beale Street blues Spanier 1964

The band sets in with W.C. Handy's Beale Street Blues. Muggsy stopped the playing, wasn't happy with the 'sloppy' start and off they go again
Darnell Howard on clarinet played in the King Oliver Dixie Syncopator's in the late twenties.
He plays in that wonderful New Orleans style of Barney Bigard and Albert Nicholas who were in that Oliver band as well. They probably all played the Albert system clarinet.
You have to ask clarinettist Woodie Allen.
There is some terrific slapping by bassist Pops Foster. This kind of playing is not heard much any more in jazz,but Pops was the master.
Another forgotten obscurity is Joe Sullivan. He is probably one of the most creative and original early jazz style players.
In the early seventies Time-Life Records produced a set of 28 LP sets ( 3 albums plus a book in each set) called the Giants of Jazz. Featured pianists were Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington but Time Life ( and these specialists working for them at the time certainly knew) also produced a 3 record set featuring Joe Sullivan.
Very little on film that I know, but yes....Here is Joe.

Mugsy Spanier with Bob Crosby -Dippermouth Blues-1940's

Mugsy Spanier with Bob Crosby -Dippermouth Blues-1940's
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China Boy - Lino Patruno and Oscar Klein

China Boy - Lino Patruno and Oscar Klein
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Tribute to Muggsy Spanier and Sidney Bechet
Oscar Klein (trumpet)
Bruno Castracucchi (clarinet)
Marco Ratti (bass)
Lino Patruno (guitar)

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Francis Joseph Julian "Muggsy" Spanier (1906–1967) was a prominent white cornet player based in Chicago. He was renowned as the best trumpet/cornet in Chicago until Bix Beiderbecke entered the scene.
Muggsy led several traditional / "hot" jazz bands, most notably Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band (which did not, in fact, play ragtime but, rather, "hot jazz" that would now be called Dixieland. This band set the style for all later attempts to play traditional jazz with a swing rhythm section. It's key members, apart from Muggsy, were: George Brunies - later Brunis- (trombone and vocals), Rodney Cless (clarinet), George Zack or Joe Bushkin (piano), Ray McKinstry, Nick Ciazza or Bernie Billings (tenor sax), and Bob Casey (bass). A number of competent but unmemorable drummers worked in the band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggsy_Spanier

Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist/trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months and later playing duets with Armstrong), and was perhaps the first notable jazz saxophonist of any sort. Forceful delivery, well-constructed improvisations, and a distinctive wide vibrato characterized Bechet's playing.
Shortly before his death in Paris, Bechet dictated his poetic autobiography, Treat It Gentle. He died on his 62nd birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Bechet

Panama - Bob Cats

Panama - Bob Cats
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Panama Bob Cats 1951

The Bob Cats are swinging nicely through this old standard. At the end it gives a good view of drummer Ray Bauduc's enthusiasm and skills. Unfortunately the last bar of the tune was lost when I got this video many years ago, so... I can't give it back to you either.
The 1935-1942 period was Crosby's heyday, with his band featuring such classic soloists as Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield, Eddie Miller, Matty Matlock, Irving Fazola, Joe Sullivan, Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, and Muggsy Spanier. During an era when swing was the thing and New Orleans jazz was considered by many to be ancient history, Crosby's crew led the way to the eventual New Orleans revival. Such classic recordings as "South Rampart Street Parade" and "What's New" (both composed by bassist Bob Haggart) along with the many Dixieland stomps kept the band quite popular. The orchestra broke up in late 1942,
At times the Bob Cats were together again in different personnel settings.
In these film clips 1951 bassist Bob Haggart organized a session that consisted out of the following musicians:
Billy Butterfield trumpet, Matty Matlock clarinet, Eddie Miller tenor sax, Warren smith trombone, Jess Stacy piano, Nappy Lamare guitar, Bob Haggart bass and Ray Bauduc drums
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Bob Cats Who's Sorry Now

Bob Cats Who's Sorry Now
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Who's Sorry Now Bob Cats 1951

The 1935-1942 period was Crosby's heyday, with his band featuring such classic soloists as Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield, Eddie Miller, Matty Matlock, Irving Fazola, Joe Sullivan, Bob Zurke, Jess Stacy, and Muggsy Spanier. During an era when swing was the thing and New Orleans jazz was considered by many to be ancient history, Crosby's crew led the way to the eventual New Orleans revival. Such classic recordings as "South Rampart Street Parade" and "What's New" (both composed by bassist Bob Haggart) along with the many Dixieland stomps kept the band quite popular. The orchestra broke up in late 1942,
At times the Bob Cats were together again in different personnel settings.
In these film clips 1951 bassist Bob Haggart organized a session that consisted out of the following musicians:
Billy Butterfield trumpet, Matty Matlock clarinet, Eddie Miller tenor sax, Warren smith trombone, Jess Stacy piano, Nappy Lamare guitar, Bob Haggart bass and Ray Bauduc drums

King Porter Stomp Dutch Swing College

King Porter Stomp D S C
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King Porter Stomp Dutch Swing College 1970
One of the first live concerts I ever attended was in 1951 and I believe it was in Amsterdam's concertgebouw. It was a performance of Sidney Bechet with the Dutch Swing College Band.
Later in the studio two tunes were recorded with Bechet: The King Porter Stomp and the D.S.C. Blues. Soon after I bought that 78 record.
Here in a broadcast in 1970 they pay tribute to that early recording and leader Peter Schilperoort on soprano sax leads his band in the King Porter Stomp.