Charlie Hunter's Bing Bing Bing

Although Blue Note records are my favorites, some will be surprised thatI enjoyed the Charlie Hunter "Bing Bing Bing" CD. My favorite Blue Notes normally were released in the 1950s and - 60s, but this one was recorded in the mid 1990s, when Blue Note had made a restart. Charlie Hunter, however, is a very giften guitar player, performing the 8-string guitar. This type of guitar gives a kind of hammond like sound, so typically for the 1960s Blue Note records. The style of the CD is funky, but always swinging with a heavy bass played by Charlie Hunter on his extra strings.

I like it ! Enjoy it.

To Have or Not To Have

Jerry pointed me to an eBay item which shows an EP with two Hit of the week recordings. It contains the two Harlem Hot Chocolate recordings; the only Ellington recordings he made for Durium.

Should it be part of my collection? As a fact I do have these tunes in my collection several times. As an original of course, but also on LP ( 2 times), cassette ( 5 times), on CD or CDR ( 12 times ).

Wil je hem nog steeds niet? Jerry asked. No I guess I don't need this item.

Choro ..... also in Holland

ChoroBrasilScandinavia

Last summer I visited Copenhagen together with Theo and Jørgen for a presentation about Oscar Aleman, the Argentinean jazz guitar player and at the first evening Jørgen brought us to a concert of the Danish-Swedish-Brasilian group ChoroBrasilScandinavia, in the knowledge that Oscar Aleman also played and recorded several Choros tunes. It was a great musical surprise for me. div align="center

ChoroBrasilScandinavia in concert

Back in Holland I wondered if we had Choros music too and I posted a message on my web site. Today I received a message from Mariângela Guimarães who wrote me:

Hoi Hans,

I just saw a message you posted on an internet site about choro and the film Brasileirinho. I am Brazilian and I have been living in Amsterdam for a couple of years and I make a website about Brazilian cultural events in the Netherlands ( http://www.brazilie.net ). You wanted to know if there are groups that play choro here and there are a couple. One of them is Choramundo, that will be playing on March 7th at the Roode Bioscoop in Amsterdam.


They are really good. I highly recommend!

I couldn't find an image of that band Choramundo, but you'll find their web site with a lot of info under the title http://fakhouri.sites.uol.com.br/ .

Thanks for the info Mariângela !!

Take Your Pick

"Take Your Pick" by Arie Lighthart - Bob van Oven and Wim Kolstee ( Hilversum 9 June 1959 )


Isn't that cute? This morning I found a message in the Hot Jazz Guild from Joe Gordon. He wrote:

I'm hoping that out there is another 'Banjoist' who started after hearing Arie playing 'TAKE YOUR PICK' with the Dutch Swing College Band......why? Well, in one of our many house moves (well, you have to move often when you play banjo!)....I lost my record of Arie's version of that tune. It was a kind of talisman for me,....I can STILL remember the excitement I felt when I heard it LIVE in Glasgow..... and..... it was one of the proudest moments in my life when I could play MY VERSION of 'Take your pick'! Does anyone still have an LP or cassette of DSCB with that title on it? I'd be happy to pay whatever....or, if you wanted to have the LP or Cassette copied to computer...and 'cleaned'.....Clicks and noise removed etc. and then burned to CD....I'd be happy to do that in return. Regards, JOE GORDON.

Last year I bought some EP's at a junk market for our local sport club and one of it had a beautiful 1950s cover. I bought it, but .... back home the record was missing ..... So: sorry Joe. I really miss that record too !!

Hans

Sons of the Desert - The Big Bamboo

Some days ago I received a cd of the so-called Sons of the Desert, a Munich (Germany) based group that plays blues, swing and Hawaiian music. It's already their third cd and it sounds great and reminds me to the music of bands like the Dutch Gangbusters ( Frenk van Meeteren - Ton van Bergeyk - Gert-Jan Blom and Roland Brunt )or the 1930s Roy Smeck recordings. Listen to two music files I found on their web site: Na Moku Eha and the delicious out-of-tune version of Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me.
I'm anxious to hear their first two records.

Thank you Leopold for this musical surprise.

Keep Swinging: Dutch Swing College Band

Keep Swinging: Dutch Swing College Band
Historic movies are on our site: www.dscband.nl & click on photo/movie. Also check the DVD: "The Story, 60 years". For specific questions contact our archive-manager Adrie Braat at info@dscband.nl

Ton van Bergeyk

Fats and more ......

That's me, somewhere in the 1960s, playing the piano - trying to imitate the boogie woogie masters (like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis) or playing stride ( like Fats Waller, James P. or Eubie Blake). The old masters would have smiled.

Fats Waller was my first idol. Together with Hans van der Veer I collected all RCA Black & White""The Complete Fats Waller Recordings". We started to make a Fats Waller discography, unknown that Laurie Wright should publish his ""Fats" in Fact" in 1992. Thanks to the fact that Hans van der Veer worked at Philips in Eindhoven ( The Netherlands) he could buy cheap reel-to-reel tapes for my Akai taperecorder, and due to the fact he earned some money he could buy most of the Black & Whites and tape it for me. So my first "complete" collection was the Fats Waller musical heritage.

Nice detail: Some years ago I found the two RCA Fats Waller Memorial LP sets at a reasonable price at a record fair and bought both boxes. In the 1970s these boxes were inaccesible for me - now I have it !! (although I have the music in the boxes already on cassettes and CDs).

Record collectors are weird !!

Keep Swinging

Welcome on my web log. I will use it to share my admiration for jazz music, for my record collection and other jazz projects. I hope to meet other people who have the same passion.

Keep swinging

Hans