I’m back with another of our Newsletters for you. Another dollar, another day, as they say and once again, I cannot believe a week has gone by already. Last Friday (11th June) we enjoyed the wonderful sounds of professionalism from the Vintage Jazz Band. Unfortunately, our audience, although quality, was very short in quantity! All those missing regulars missed a repeat performance of ‘Palser’s walking Baby’ (i.e. ‘Cake Walking Babies’ by Barry Palser, with his strutting). As mentioned last week, we also had George Walker on banjo & vocals). George of ‘Max Collie Rhythm Aces’ fame. Thank you George, for helping to make Friday night another memorable one for us.
This Friday (18th June), escape from the continuous, loud, monotone drone of the World Cup. Blow out the vuvuzelas. Come and hear how a real horn should be played (!!) with the Storyville Jass Band from Arnhem, Holland. Don’t forget the band play two more sets (after the end of the football game), because they play until 11.30p.m. So come along and celebrate if you are English, or commiserate if you are Algerian!
By the way, just in case you are only receiving the Newsletters on your computer and are not able to see the extra pages to the right of the them (re the club and bands etc.) you can look up Storyville on their own website www.storyvilljassband.info to find out all about them. For example, on 4th January 2009, they celebrated their 50th anniversary with a Jubilee concert where the great Chris Barber performed as a guest.
This Friday’s expected line-up of the band will be:
Ruud Nieuwenhuijzen - cornet, flugelhorn, vocals, leader
Henk van de Ven - clarinet
Peter Dobbe - trombone, vocals, guitar
Berry Schuuring – drums
Hein van Rooijen - double bass and
Jelle Posthumus - banjo, vocals, guitar
Cheers from Diane & Keith.
Terrific band on Friday! Must have them back at Farnborough soon!
Thanks Mark. Yep, what a band, what a night. They (The Storyville Jazz Band) will be back at Farnborough Jazz Club in May 2011.
Diane