Blue Flamingo: The Spanish Tinge.

( Naar de Nederlandse vertaling.) BLUE FLAMINGO: COLLECTOR IN DREAMS BLUE FLAMINGO: GROSSIER IN DROMEN BLUE FLAMINGO: EEN SPAANS TINTJE
Jazz music seems to be not-done nowadays.... young people have their own music - jazz music doesn't fit into their culture. Jazz music is for eldery grey men. The Rotterdam record collector Ziya Ertekin loves to share his recordings by playing it. No LPs nor CDs, but "old fashion" 78 rpm recordings from his collection. He plays his records on a 1957 Garrard RC-88 with a Fender Vibroberb for some extra amplification. His most favourite records are now reissued on a CD released on the Excelsior label. Old Wine in New Bottles
Ziya Ertekin (photo courtesy Jan Van De Ven)
On the album three lengthy mixes, titled Oriental Nitty Gritty - The Spanish Tinge & The French Connection and Ritmo & Blues. Today I'll tell you more about his The Spanish Tinge & The French Connection. You can read more about the other selections at Blue Flamingo: Collector of Dreams.

The Library of Congress Recordings: One of the CDs with the complete set refering the Spanish Tinge.

The Spanish Tinge selection starts with a short fragment of Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 Library of Congress Recordings. These famous Library of Congress Recordings are stored on fourty-four 78rpm records and contain a lenghty interview with Jelly Roll Morton by Alan Lomax, held in 1937. Jelly Roll Morton, who labelled himself as The Creator of Jazz, told the story of Jazz in his own words and a small fragment of that interview was used as a starter for this mix: Maybe you noticed the Spanish Tinge in this tune, Morton says: This got so much to do with the typical jazz idea; if one is not able to put these things of Spanish and West Indies tunes into their music they will never be able to get the right seasoning for jazz; Jelly Roll Morton explains on Spanish Swat - Jazz; a melting pot of cultures. First I felt sorry that Ziya only used such a short fragment of this famous Morton interview, but, as I told before, when I had finished listening this album ........... like the hidden tracks on some Verve albums , Jelly Roll Morton continues his story while playing La Paloma in Blues tempo (on the b-side of Circle 28). Really a great surprise.

On his website Ziya tells about his adoration for the music of Lionel Belasco, the Caribbean piano player, calypso composer and bandleader, who was one of the first to make records around 1914. Great, because I had never heard about this great early piano player until Joergen pointed me to a CD titled Lionel Belasco: Goodnight Ladies and Gents ( The Creole Music of Liuonel Belasco) posted in a contribution titled: Lionel Belasco. Ziya tellis on his website that he fell in love to the Belasco composition Juliana, he found on a Columbia record. He tells about his visit to Port of Spain in Trinidad some years ago, hunting for calypso records and his meeting with cuatrista Robert Munro (a cuatro is a small four-string guitar), who took up his instrument again and is still active nowadays. I found a picture of Robert Munro I love to share and Ziya filmed the man playing his beloved tune Juliana.
In this selection you can find music from Trinidad as played by Alphonso et son Orchestre Typique Antillais and Cuban orchestras like Don Azpiazu and his Havana Casino Orchestra, the man who introduced this kind of music in the States early 1940s. And of course you can listen to the "famous" Juliana tune, as played by Lionel Belasco y su Orquesta.

Robert Munro
When I first read about Ziya Ertekin, who plays his 78s as DJ Blue Flamingo, in The Jazz Bulletin of the Dutch Jazz Archive ( NJA Bulletin number 68 page 43), I was anxious to learn more about this man and his projects. Now, after I've heard the record and read his stories I'm convinced that we have a lot in common. His fascinating for music developed from free jazz to John Coltrane and from Coltrane to Duke Ellington. Toen ik The Mooche van Duke Ellington hoorde op 78-toeren, wilde ik alleen nog maar 78-toeren horen. ( = When I first heard The Mooche by Duke Ellington on a 78rpm record I knew it: No more LPs or CDS, but only 78rpms for me ......) I share his fascination for music from the Caribbean, which reveals itself in my case in my adoration of Brazilian Choro music. I enjoy the way he shares his collection ( the transfer and sound of this selection is really great). I feel the same passion for jazz and other related music in his record and website. ( this morning it was not active - sorry) Don't forget to visit it: it has great stories ( unfortunally for you the stories are all in Dutch - maybe you should take a course ..... ) and label shots.

Blue Flamingo - 78 r.p.m. Blues, R&B, Hot Jazz, Rumba Negra & Exotica: Three musical journeys compiled by 78 r.p.m. record collector & DJ Ziya Ertekin alias Blue Flamingo ( Excel96143.)

Keep swinging

Hans Koert

keepswinging@live.nl

Nederlands ( To the English translation )
CHARLIE PARKER: 88 kaarsjes

Als Charlie Parker nog steeds bij ons zou zijn geweest ( hij overleed op 12 maart 1955 op 35 jarige leeftijd) dan zouden er vandaag 88 kaarsjes op zijn verjaardagstaart gestaan hebben. Charlie Parker, beter bekend als Bird, groeide in die 35 jaar dat zijn leven duurde uit van een getallenteerde altsaxofonist, die de altsax en de jazzmuziek voorgoed veranderde tot een haast mytische legende, zwaar gedrogeerd en eenzaam gestorven aan de gevolgen van zijn verslavingen. Het lijkt toeval, maar werd niet op deze zelfde dag, 50 jaar geleden, een jongetje geboren, die ze Michael noemden, die opgroeide binnen een muzikale familie, beroemd werd en nu, "oud", verminkt en eenzaam, als een karikatuur van zichzelf, zijn vijftigste verjaardag viert op zijn landgoed?

Hans Koert - keepswinging@live.nl

BLUE FLAMINGO: EEN SPAANS TINTJE

De Rotterdamse platenverzamelaar Ziya Ertekin deelt zijn verzameling met iedereen die het wil horen, door zijn platen te draaien; geen LP's of CD's, maar ouderwetse breekbare schellakplaten. Zijn mooiste platen heeft hij nu overgezet op CD, zodat nu ook thuis geluisterd kan worden.

Maybe you noticed the Spanish tinge in this tune ( = Misschien heb je het Spaanse tintje wel gemerkt in dit nummer), zegt Jelly Roll Morton met een ietwat nazale stem op één van de Library of Congress Recordings: This got so much to do with the typical jazz idea ( = Dit heeft alles te maken met het begrip jazz) if one is not able to put these things of Spanish and West Indies tunes into their music they will never be able to get the right seasoning for jazz (= .. als je niet in staat bent om elementen uit Spaanse of Westindische nummers te gebruiken in je muziek, dan zul je nooit je Jazz "op smaak.) Als je het hele artikel wilt lezen vind je het eerste deel als: Blue Flamingo: Grossier in Dromen en het tweede als Blue Flamingo: Een Spaans Tintje.

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Hans Koert

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Blue Flamingo: Collector of Dreams

( Naar de Nederlandse vertaling.) ZEELAND NAZOMERFESTIVAL BLUE FLAMINGO: GROSSIER IN DROMEN
Jazz music seems to be not-done nowadays.... young people have their own music - Jazz music doesn't fit into their culture. Jazz music is for eldery grey men. Jazz isn't dead - it only smells funny. Jazz music has left public places like radio and tv; dance halls and record shops - Record shops? Maybe I should say media shops? You can now download DVD's and CDs as digital files from the internet to store on your iPod – Jazz in bits and bytes... But..... there are some exceptions. A lot of young people learn to play Jazz at the various Dutch and Belgian Schools of Music. Volunteers organize concerts in clubs to share their music and fanatic jazz fans share their passion for jazz on their weblogs. In The Netherlands people like DJ Maestro or Madlib have released mixed jazz records, which seem to be very popular and Jules Deelder, the former Nachtburgemeester (= Night Mayor) of Rotterdam, as he was called, plays his LP-records on festivals: Old Wine in New Bottles.

The Rotterdam record collector Ziya Ertekin loves to share his recordings by playing it. No LPs nor CDs, but "old fashion" 78 rpm recordings from his own collection. He plays his records on a 1957 Garrard RC-88 with a Fender Vibroberb for some extra amplification. His most favourite records are now reissued on a CD released on the Excelsior label.

On this album three long "mixes", titled: Oriental Nitty Gritty - The Spanish Tinge & The French Connection and Ritmo & Blues. Today I love to tell you about the first and last mix: on Thursday I'll point you to the second mix in: Blue Flamingo: The Spanish Tinge.

The first compilation is an almost 20 minute’s mix of hot jazz, with some oriental flavours...... During the 1920s people were anxious to learn more about exotic places and these exotic places inspired musicians: think about the Hawaiian style music and the numerous tunes, with "Arab", titles like Egyptian Ella and The Sheik of Araby, but Ziya's choices are not so obvious: Lil Armstrong's Swing Orchestra plays Oriental Swing; the Mills Blue Rhythm Band continues with Congo Caravan and Abdullah is one of the more unknown tunes by Fats Waller. And of course, the King of the Jungle: Duke Ellington with his 1929 version of Arabian Lover. Most tunes selected are from the 1930s with the first track: Casbah by Sidney Bechet's Circle Seven which is from the last day of January 1949. Great tunes - well transfered to CD...............

The third mix, labelled as Ritmo & Blues is most early 1950s Rhythm and Blues stuff. This music, labelled as Jive in the 1940s, was developed by musicians like Louis Jordan, who founded his Tympany Five. In the early 1950s Rhythm & Blues artists, like Charles Brown and Lloyd Glenn were playing this music. They were, like so many other musicians, fascinated by the Mambo and you can hear this in the tunes selected.

On this part of the album you can find several early 1950s Rhythm & blues artists who used these Mambo rhythms in their recordings: The Moonglows play Tempting in its 1956 version, when 78rpm recordings were almost gone in the record shops. The tune Daddy Rollin' Stone by Otis Blackwell became a hit in Jamaica and beyond early 1950s. The selection ends with a groovy version of Swinging the Mambo by Vin Strong on organ, recorded in 1954. And if you are a bit overwhelmed after listening to this selection ( like me) and you forget to shut off your CD-player Ziya will bring you a small surprise ................ Jelly Roll Morton playing for you: La Paloma with ..... the Spanish Tinge. You can read more about that in Blue Flamingo: The Spanish Tinge !!

Keep swinging

Hans Koert

keepswinging@live.nl

Nederlands ( To the English translation )

ZEELAND NAZOMERFESTIVAL

Vandaag begint in Zeeland het Zeeland Nazomerfestival, een festival dat, behalve theather op locatie geeft, ook veel muziek brengt. Ik denk dat er voor jazzliefhebbers zo hier en daar ook veel te beleven zal zijn. Wat te denken van Sam Vloemans met zijn tango - jazz muziek of Hans Teeuwen, die nu eens geen grappen en grollen uithaalt, maar serieuze jazz zingt, in de stijl van grote crooners als Frank Sinatra. En dan kan hij heel goed, ontdekte ik een paar jaar geleden in Porgy en Bess in Terneuzen. Of het trio van Gabriel Rios, met Jef Neve op bas en Kobe Proesmans op slagwerk? Deze Puertoricaanse Belg schijnt heel wat in zijn mars te hebben. Bovengenoemde bands treden allemaal op in het binnenplein ( omgetoverd tot Het Festivalhart), van de Abdij van Middelburg. Zelf gaan we naar één van de voorstellingen op locatie, getiteld: Zilke - dood en ontwaken bij de Hollandse Hoeve in Goes. Het muziektheatergezelschap Walpurgis treedt hierop met de Big Band Flat Earth Society. Dat belooft in ieder geval veel muziek ..... Het Zeeland Nazomerfestival vindt plaats van 26 augustus t/m 6 september 2008.

Hans Koert - keepswinging@live.nl

BLUE FLAMINGO: GROSSIER IN DROMEN:

Jazzmuziek is uit .... jonge mensen hebben hun eigen muziek ......... Jazz is niet hip of vetgaaf .......Jazz past niet in hun cultuur. Jazz is voor oudere grijze, ietwat buikige mannen. Jazz isn't dead: it only smells funny (=jazz is niet dood - het ruikt alleen maar raar...). Jazzmuziek is ook helemaal uit het openbare leven verdwenen, zoals weg van de radio of de TV, verbannen uit de danszalen, nu discotheken genaamd. Jazzplaten, CDs, koop je niet meer in een winkel, maar download je van internet, om vervolgens als bestand naar je iPod te verhuizen: Jazz in bits and bytes....... Gelukkig zijn er nog uitzonderingen. Gelukkig zijn er nog jonge mensen op de conservatoria die jazz willen leren spelen en zijn er nog clubs met enthousiaste vrijwilligers, die hun muziek live willen horen. Gelukkig zijn er nog fans, die met hun weblogs hun passie voor Jazz uitdragen. Er zijn ook discjockey's zoals DJ Maestro of Madlib, die met succes voor de jeugd Jazzmuziek mixen tot dansbare brokken, of een Jules Deelder die stad en land afreist met zijn koffer vol LP's: Old Wine in New Bottles ( = Oude wijn in Nieuwe Zakken.)
De Rotterdamse platenverzamelaar Ziya Ertekin deelt zijn verzameling met iedereen die het wil horen, door zijn platen te draaien; geen LP's of CD's, maar ouderwetse breekbare schellakplaten. Zijn mooiste platen heeft hij nu overgezet op CD, zodat nu ook thuis geluisterd kan worden. Blue Flamingo: Grossier in Dromen.

Keep swinging

Hans Koert

keepswinging@live.nl

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The Brazilian Tinge

Recently a contribution in this blog mentioned Jelly Roll Morton's concept of jazz, which included Latin elements, designated as 'The Spanish Tinge' -: the habanera rhythm, the Creole music tradition of New Orleans and influence from various Caribbean sources. Morton was not the only jazz musician to take advantage of the inspiration drawn from various musical traditions outside the mainstream of American popular culture, also Duke Ellington was inspired by the Latin flavour incorporated in some of his own compositons labeled as 'Jungle style'. Later, jazzmusicians went even further exploring the music traditions 'South of the border' - the 1950s and 1960s brought the bossa nova from Brazil to the States, adding a warm breeze to the cool jazz of the time. However, to the general public bossa was jazz, neglecting its Brazilian roots in rich musical traditions of the past that seem to have been un-noticed by most people outside Brazil. A contemporary attempt to find these roots and incorporate inspiration drawn from them into jazz is found in the work of pianist, arranger and composer, Cliff Korman.

Cliff Korman is an articulated artist, his official website is a well of information about his various musical projects and the ideas pointing them out. About his involvment with Brazilian music tradition he has a paragraph titled 'The Brazilian Tinge', in which he shares his thoughts about the Brazilian music tradition and jazz. I like to quote the following from his web to give you an impression of what he's after.

"The Brazilian Tinge is a multi-faceted project that spans from performance and recording to developing an academic curriculum on Brazilian Jazz, that features a unique mix of musicians, compositions, arrangements, and "concept". - The performance project features original jazz compositions written in the spirit of Brazilian genre of bossa, samba, baião, ballad, and choro. Its intent is to create an atmosphere which uses Brazilian rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic vocabulary as the prime material for the freedom of improvised performance. - In my attempt to represent the coming together of jazz and Brazilian popular music, I envision both the performance and the recording as a layered musical structure with minimal horizontal segmentation. - I invite guests to improvise through this woven musical texture so that the listener’s attention is drawn toward the interplay of layers rather than the sequence of “tunes”. "

During the late 1990s and early 2000s Cliff Korman had a co-operation with the highly estimated Brazilian reed player, Paulo Moura, involving musical projects devoted to the music of Pixinguinha and Duke Ellington and to the Gafieira (ballroom) tradition of Brazil. - In 1999, Korman and Moura released 'Mood Ingênuo: Pixinguinha Meets Duke Ellington' - a live album that treated the listener to a make-believe world showcasing what it would have been like if Pixinguinha and Duke Ellington had ever met. In 2001, again with Paulo Moura, Korman released 'Gafieira Dance Brasil', an album that relived the golden era of Gafieira, the genuine Brazilian ballroom music style incorporating choro and samba. Click here to learn more about this project.

In 2006 was released a compilation of tracks from the mentioned two project-cds, 'Gafiera Jazz' - if you are interested in expploring Korman's vision of the Brazilian tinge, this compilation is a nice example featuring Paulo Moura (cl), Ciff Korman (p), Mestre Zé Paulo (cavaquinho), David Finck (b) and Paulo Braga (dm). The cd contains choro standarts like "1X0", "Noites Cariocas" and "Saxaphone porque chorãs" and the remaining 6 pieces draw from the same tradition. You have an opportunity to listen to the cd in full length at Paulo Moura's official website, click here

To give you a visual impression of the contemporary Gafieira tradition in Brazil, I insert a sequence from Mika Kaurismäki's documentary, 'Brasileirinho, Choro In Rio'(2005) showcasting live performance featuring musicians like Paulo Moura (cl), Daniela Spielman (ss), Silveiro Pontes (tp), Zé da Velha (tb) and a rhythm section. The music was composed by one of the pioneers of the Gafieira tradition, Severino Araújo, and the tune is named "Chorinho pra Voce"

Jo

Ziya opens 90th Doctor Jazz Dag

Ziya opent 90ste Doctor Jazz Dag ( Nederlands) Ziya opens 90th Doctor Jazz Dag ( English)

Doctor Jazz Dag aims to a younger generation
ZIYA OPENS 90th DOCTOR JAZZ DAGY
Hans Koert

The 90th Doctor Jazz Dag ( = Doctor Jazz Day), in the past known as the Doctor Jazz Reunie ( = Reunion), was organized on Saturday the 17th of October 2009 at the Hof van Wageningen in Wageningen, a city in the centre of The Netherlands.
Ziya Ertekin ( as Blue Flamingo) (photo courtesy: Hans Koert)
The Doctor Jazz Reunions were started in 1965 in Hotel Florida in Boskoop, a small village near Gouda in the western part of The Netherlands, as a half year meeting for collectors of traditional jazz music by Sjaak Van Glabbeek, present during the concerts, sitting on the first row and a 21 years young Ate Van Delden, now the chairman of the organization. He introduced the audience to the first artist to open the afternoon concerts; a 4 hours show with groups like the Aces of Syncopation, the Red Hot Reedwarmers and the Dixieland Crackerjacks. In the morning an extensive jazz record fair was scedulded which has grown to an important meeting place for jazz record collectors in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Ziya Ertekin starts to play his 78rpm records for an audience waiting patiently ( photo Hans Koert)
The series of afternoon concerts was opened by Ziya Ertekin, as Blue Flamingo. Ziya Ertekin is a young Disc Jockey. Like DJ's as Maestro and Jules Deelder, one of the best known record collectors and an icon of jazz to the general public, love to present their selections of danceable jazz lp's to entertain the (most) young audience in disco's and clubs - they released their mixes as compilations on records like Blue Note Trips ( Maestro) or series like Deelder Draait / Deelder Draait Door / Deelder lijft Draaien; Ziya restricts himself to play 78rpm records - his passion. He released last year some of his mixes for Excelsior records, titled Oriental Nitty Gritty - Ritmo & Blues and The Spanish Tinge & The French Connection, he presented today in Wageningen. He introduced a small selection of his shellac record collection to the visitors of the Doctor Jazz Dag. Normaal gaat iedereen dansen op mijn muziek, dus voel je vooral niet bezwaard. (= Normally my audience loves to dance to the music, so you need have no qualms about that), he said, but the audience wanted to listen and enjoyed the music. its activities were limited up to tapping the feet. The source .......... his 78rpm records ( photo courtesy: Hans Koert)

Thanks to the spoken intermezzo's by Ziya the appearing was more then just playing records. He took the audience to a trip along the Caribbean and started with a fragment of the Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress recordings as made by Alex Lomax in the summer of 1938, where Morton introduces The Spanish Tinge. Ziya told about his trip to Cuba, where he learned the Cuban music and where he found a lot of 78rpm records. He continued his trip into the Caribbean with records found in Costa Rica and Trinidad. In Trinidad he learned about the music of Lionel Belasco, the great calypso composer. Jo introduced you to his music in a previous blog, titled Lionel Belasco. Ziya finished his musical trip in Congo where he found some 78rpm records he will introduce in his second album to be released next year.
Ziya playing the blues. (photo courtesy: Hans Koert)
Ziya finished his short performance with a couple of blues tunes played at the guitar and the banjo, a too short performance.

(photo: Hans Koert)

I love to share with you a fragment of a TV program, titled DJ met een missie by the VPRO Networks series Vals Plat of Ziya and his records. Ate Van Delden explains in this short documentary the importance of Ziya's mission, referring to the title of the documentary: DJ met een missie. Although it is in Dutch, I'm sure you'll like it! ( thanks Henk for pointing me to this).

Het is fantastisch om te ontdekken dat ook jonge mensen deze muziek ontdekken en leren kennen door optredens als van Blue Flamingo; de muziek, waarop hun opa's en oma's vroeger dansten en muziek maakten, was zo gek nog niet en je kunt er prima op dansen en plezier maken. ( = It is good to learn that young people rediscover this music as played by Blue Flamingo and and it learns that you can enjoy it and dance to it, unashamedly, as their grand parents did years ago: Tonny Van Deijl, the hostess of these performances explained. Music is emotion !! - Maybe this initiative is a start to interest a younger generation to this music.. The next Doctor Jazz Dag is scedulded on Saturday the 17th of April, 2010 - I'm sure it's in their iPhones allready.

Hans Koert
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Blue Flamingo: Een Spaans Tintje!

( To the English translation.) Happy Birthday for Prez and Bird Blue Flamingo: Grossier in Dromen Blue Flamingo: Collector of Dreams
Jazzmuziek is uit .... jonge mensen hebben hun eigen muziek ......... Jazz is niet hip of vetgaaf .......Jazz past niet in hun cultuur. Jazz is voor oudere grijze, ietwat buikige mannen. Gelukkig zijn er ook nog jazzfans, die met hun platen de discotheken en danszalen afreizen en overal hun muziek laten horen: Old Wine in New Bottles ( = Oude Wijn in Nieuwe Zakken.)

Ziya Ertekin ( foto Jan van de Ven)

De Rotterdamse platenverzamelaar Ziya Ertekin deelt zijn verzameling met iedereen die het wil horen, door zijn platen te draaien; geen LP's of CD's, maar ouderwetse breekbare schellakplaten. Zijn mooiste platen heeft hij nu overgezet op CD, zodat nu ook thuis geluisterd kan worden. Je hebt al over hem kunnen lezen in de bijdrage: Blue Flamingo: Grossier in Dromen. Vandaag de bijdrage over de Spanish Tinge !

Eén van Library of Congress Recordings heruitgebracht op CD.

De selectie "met een Spaans tintje" begint met een kort fragment van de Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress opnamen uit 1938. Deze beroemde Library of Congress opnamen zijn wellicht niet bij iedereen bekend. Ze bestaan uit een vier-en-veertigtal 78-toerenplaten, die een lang interview bevatten met Jelly Roll Morton, vastgelegd door Alan Lomax in 1938. Jelly Roll Morton, die zichzelf in al zijn bescheidenheid uitgeroepen had tot The Creator of Jazz, vertelt zijn verhaal over de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de Jazz, dat hij al vanaf 1900 zelf meegemaakt had. Een kort fragment heeft Ziya gebruikt als start van deze mix: Maybe you noticed the Spanish tinge in this tune ( = Misschien heb je het Spaanse tintje wel gemerkt in dit nummer), zegt Morton, This got so much to do with the typical jazz idea ( = Dit heeft alles te maken met het begrip jazz) if one is not able to put these things of Spanish and West Indies tunes into their music they will never be able to get the right seasoning for jazz (= .. als je niet in staat bent om elementen uit Spaanse of Westindische nummers te gebruiken in je muziek, dan zul je nooit je Jazz "op smaak" krijgen).

Jelly Roll Morton legt uit op de plaat, getiteld Spanish Swat, dat Jazz een smeltkroes is van culturen: Jazz; a melting pot of cultures. Eerlijk gezegd hou ik niet zo van korte fragmenten op een plaat, maar gelukkig bleek Ziya dat op voorhand te snappen ........ Zoals ik gisteren al verklapte, heeft Ziya, waarschijnlijk geinspireerd door de "verstopte nummers" op sommige Verve albums, Jelly Roll Morton nog even aan het woord gelaten en hem voor ons La Paloma in Blues tempo laten spelen (zoals op de b-kant van Circle 28. )Een leuke verrassing, Ziya !!

Op zijn website vertelt Ziya over zijn fascinatie voor de muziek van Lionel Belasco, de pianospeler uit de Carraiben, calypsospeler en componist en bandleider, die de eerste was die deze muziek in 1914 vastlegde. Prachtig toch, vooral als je je bedenkt dat ik ook nog nooit van deze man had gehoord, totdat Joergen me onlangs op een verzamel-CD van deze man wees, getiteld Lionel Belasco: Goodnight Ladies and Gents ( The Creole Music of Lionel Belasco), waarover hij ( in het Engels) schreef in: Lionel Belasco. Ziya vertelt op zijn website dat hij helemaal gek is van Belasco's compositie Juliana, dat hij op een Columbiaplaat vond. Hij vertelt over zijn bezoek een paar jaar geleden aan Trinidad, aan de plaats Port of Spain, aan zijn jacht naar Calypsoplaten op 78-toeren, aan zijn onverwachte ontmoeting met cuatrista Robert Munro (een cuatro is een klein vier-snarige gitaar, een soort cavaquinho, maar ongetwijfeld anders gestemd), die zijn instrument van onder het bed haalde en weer ging spelen. Hij speelt overigens nog steeds, ontdekte ik dankzij een foto gemaakt tijdens een concert en bovendien heeft Ziya hem gefilmd, als hij Juliana speelt. In deze selectie vind je muziek uit Trinidad gespeeld door Alphonso et son Orchestre Typique Antillais en Cubaanse orkesten zoals die van de in 1943 overleden Don Azpiazu, die met zijn Havana Casino Orchestra de Cubaanse muziek in de Verenigde Staten introduceerde. En natuurlijk staat Juliana, er op, gespeeld door Lionel Belasco y su Orquesta.

Cuatrista Robert Munro.

Toen ik voor het eerst over Ziya Ertekin las in het Jazz Bulletin van het Nederlands Jazz Archief ( nummer 68 blz. 43), die als DJ Blue Flamingo zijn 78-toerenplaten draait, wilde ik meer van hem en zijn projecten weten. Ik heb nu zijn plaat vele malen gespeeld en zijn verhalen op zijn informatieve website gelezen en ik raak ervan overtuigd dat we een aantal overeenkomstige passies hebben. Opvallend vond ik te lezen, dat zijn fascinatie voor deze muziek begonnen is bij de free-jazz, daarna John Coltrane en via Duke Ellington aanbeland bij de vroegste vormen van deze muziek op 78-toeren. Toen ik The Mooche van Duke Ellington hoorde op 78-toeren, wilde ik alleen nog maar 78-toeren horen, zegt hij, vrij geciteerd in het Jazz Bulletin. Ook zijn fascinatie voor muziek uit de Caraïben, die zich bij mij uit in mijn voorliefde voor Choromuziek uit Brazilië vind ik opvallend. Bovendien vind ik de manier waarop hij met zijn "hobby" bezig is, naadloos passen in het concept van deze Keep swinging blog. Vergeet vooral niet zijn informatieve website te bezoeken met label foto's van de gebruikte platen en prachtige verhalen bij elke mix.

Blue Flamingo - 78 r.p.m. Blues, R&B, Hot Jazz, Rumba Negra & Exotica: Three musical journeys compiled by 78 r.p.m. record collector & DJ Ziya Ertekin alias Blue Flamingo ( Excel96143.)

Keep swinging

Hans Koert

keepswinging@live.nl

English ( Naar de Nederlands / Vlaamse vertaling) BLUE FLAMINGO: COLLECTOR OF DREAMS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PREZ and BIRD !

Lester Young (1909-1959) should have celebrated his birthday on the 27th of August and Charlie Parker (1920-1955) two days later on the de 29th, Bart Egers wrote me tonight. Each year, (internet-) Radio WKCR New York sends from the 27th up to the 29th of August two linked Birthday Broadcasts: three days of continuous music as played by Prez and Bird: To be exact: 74 hours and 30 minutes. The Lester Young birthday-broadcast starts on Wednesday morning at 05.30 a.m. and the Charlie Parker broadcast ends at 08:30 a.m. on Saturday morning (GMT+1). Visit the website: www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/ and click on "live broadcast". You can find a survey of all 15 Birthday Broadcasts under "Jazz" on the WKCR Home Page. The next 24-hours marathon broadcast is for John Coltrane on the 23rd of September. (Bart Egers)

BLUE FLAMINGO: THE SPANISH TINGE

Jazz music seems to be not-done nowadays.... young people have their own music - Jazz music doesn't fit into their culture. Jazz music is for eldery grey men. Jazz isn't dead - it only smells funny. Thanks to some fanatic jazz collectors young visitors of festivals still can listen to these old recordings: Old Wine in New Bottles.
The Rotterdam record collector Ziya Ertekin loves to share his recordings by playing it. No LPs nor CDs, but "old fashion" 78 rpm recordings from his collection. His most favourite records are now reissued on a CD released on the Excelsior label. To wrote about Blue Flamingo: Collector of Dreams and tomorrow i'll inform you about Blue Flamingo: The Spanish Tinge
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Hans Koert

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Congo Jazz: a musical expedition

Congo Jazz: Een muzikale expeditie ( Nederlands) Congo Jazz: a musical expedition ( English)

Blue Flamingo presents Hot Jazz, Congolees Rumba, Gospel, Jug Band & Exotica
CONGO JAZZ: A MUSICAL EXPEDITION
Hans Koert

Last weekend Ziya Ertekin, aka Blue Flamingo, released his second album with 78rpm recordings at a concert at the Jazzkelder C5 in Rotterdam. This compilation is entitled Blue Flamingo - Congo Jazz. It contains almost two dozen 78rpm recordings in three separate mixes: Jungle Crawl, Congo Jazz and That Old Religion.

Ziya Ertekin aka Blue Flamingo ( publicity photo: Jan Van De Ven )

Let's introduce you to Ziya Ertekin. He's a young Rotterdam guy who is fascinated by 78rpm recordings, which he collects and as a DJ he shares his collection with his audience. Last year he performed at the Doctor Jazz Dag - the former half year Doctor Jazz Reunion record fair in Wageningen ( The Netherlands), where he played his records for an audience of jazz collectors. During that performance he played the original recordings available on his first album, simply entitled Blue Flamingo - 78 r.p.m. in which he made some musical trips to the roots of Latin music: Oriental Nitty Gritty - The Spanish Tinge & The French Connection and Ritmo and Blues.

Congo Jazz - Blue Flamingo ( Excel96202)

In Congo Jazz, Ziya makes three musical expeditions to some seldom, if never visited unknown musical worlds. In Congo Jazz he introduces us to the African 78rpm recordings as made by Tino Baroza, the Kaba Joseph Groupe Rythmique Ngoma or the Orchestre African Jazz. In the informative booklet Ziya explains how the music from Latin America, like the rumba and Cuban son, became a hype in Central Africa ( the Congo's and Cameroon) during the 1930s. African artists adopted this music and made their own interpretations. The guitar became a very important instrument in Central Africa and one of the artists Nicolas Kasanda Wa Mikalay aka Docteur Nico, was even labelled as le dieu de la guitare ( = The god of the guitar). Most records, selected by Ziya, are from the early 1950s. Docteur Nico in the 1950s

The last mix, That Old Time Religion, opened a new world to me, unknown to me so far. Ziya tells about Thomas A. Dorsey, better known as the Father of Gospel Music, known from the hit Precious Lord, Take My Hand which he wrote after the death of his first wife and child during childbirth. The tune became famous by Mahalia Jackson, who sings I'm On My Way To Canaan on this mix and Elvis Presley, who made it to a hit as Take My Hand, Precious Lord. Thomas A. Dorsey, no relative of the Dorsey Brothers, who became known as band leaders in the 1930s, recorded as Georgia Tom during the 1920s. He is to be heard on this compilation in a 1930s selection of Hide Me In Thy Bosom, as released on a one-to-one glass based record made by United Recording Laborities, New York City.

Tom A. Dorsey (1899-1993)

The first mix is the one that impressed me most, as the music is more familiar to the music I collect. It is entitled Jungle Crawl and contains some 78rpm recordings from the early 1930s from a period that this kind of jungle music was popular. The origins are going back to the early New Orleans Mardi Grass parades, where the Zulus, a colourful group of exotically dressed Afro-Americans joined the parades. Ziya described these men in the informative booklet, in a chapter titled: Jungle Crawl - The Zulus of New Orleans. The music he selected is really great: well known tunes like Jungle Crawl in a version by Tiny Parham and as a Clarence Williams recording - Borneo by Frankie Trumbauer and Jungle Fever by Red Nichols and his World Famous Pennies. And what to think about a rare I'm Mister African by Leon Rene's Orchestra, a rejected Victor recording of August 1932.

When I listen to this mix I realize, that this music was originally released as dance music and still it has a lot of power in it and could grabs hold of young people who even haven't seen a Long Play record nor a 78rpm shellac record and grew up with ipods and mp3-players. I'm sure it has the power to let them dance .....

This Jungle Crawl selection, professional mixed by Ziya Ertekin, ends with a great, but to me unknown version of one of the symbols of Dixieland jazz, the Tiger Rag as recorded by Phillips' Louisville Jug Band in August 1930 - what a refreshing surprise!

This record Congo Jazz by Blue Flamingo is now available at the internet site of Excelsior Records
Hans Koert

keepswinging@live.nl

Like David Livingstone in the nineteenth century discovered the inland of dark Africa, Ziya Ertekin, aka Blue Flamingo, introduces us to still undiscovered treasures of long gone times on vulnerable 78-rpm records. In his latest mix, Congo Jazz, he tells about the popularity of Cuban music in the centre of Africa, jungle music as critics called it years ago and about the birth of gospel music thanks to Tommy A. Dorsey. You can learn more about it in the informative booklet and on the Keep Swinging blog. If you don't want to miss it: register and I'll send you its news letter.


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