Clive Wilson's NEW ORLEANS SERENADERS UK Tour 2010 Clive Wilson, tp; Dick Cook, cl; Freddie John, tb; Butch Thompson, p; Vic Pitt, bs; Norman Emberson, dm. The New Orleans Serenaders revisit the repertoire associated with famous jazz pioneers such as Kid Ory, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton, bringing to life musical selections from all phases of their careers such as King Porter Stomp, Maple Leaf Rag, West End Blues, Climax Rag, Down Home Rag, Tom Cat Blues, and many more. Autumn Dates, 2010: Sept 12: Gunton Hall, Lowestoft. Pete Lay, 92 Mid Street, South Nutfield, Surrey RH1 4JH 01737 822726 Times not known Sept 15: Concorde Club, Eastleigh SO50 9HG 023 8061 3989 at 8.30pm Sept 16: Chapel Arts Centre, Bath BA1 1QR 01225 461700 at 7.30pm Sept 17 & 18: St. Peters Church, Frimley GU16 8 HZ 01276 27855 at 7.30pm Sept 19: New Cut Arts, Halesworth IP19 8BY 0845 673 2123 at 7.30pm Sept 21: Haselmere Hall, Haselmere GU27 2AS 01428 642161 at 7.30pm Sept 23: 100 Club, London W1 0207 636 0933 at Midday Sept 24: Guildhall Arts Centre, Grantham NG31 6 PZ 01476 406 158 at 7.30pm Sept 25: Custom House, South Shields NE33 1ES 0191 454 1234 at 7.30pm Sept 26: Woodhams Parish Hall, Woking GU21 5SH 01932 406242 at 8.00pm Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders, Volume 2, "Heart Full of Rhythm" BCD-465 is available from GHB/Jazzology Records. www.jazzology.com Terry Dash Music / E - info@terrydash.co.uk W - www.terrydash.co.uk T / F 01763 260823 Also: The New Orleans Serenaders, "The Music of Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory" BCD-446 (2003) The Original Camellia Jazz Band, "That's My Home" JCD-249 (1995) The Original Camellia Jazz Band, BCD-304 (1980 & 1982) Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders will be "On Tour" in Britain in September, 2010. For booking information in Britain, contact Terry Dash Music at www.terrydash.co.uk Now that New Orleans Serenaders clarinetist Tommy Sancton is back in his hometown New Orleans, we are playing at Preservation Hall on a semi-regular basis. Clive is also playing regularly at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe in New Orleans. Call for details at (504) 525-0200. CD Review from New Orleans Music: Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders: "Heart Full of Rhythm," GHB BCD-465 This sequel to Clive Wilson's first Serenaders album for GHB is equally eclectic and imaginative. Butch Thompson's detailed and authoritative notes set the scene nicely: "I know I speak for everybody when I say that we aren't comfortable with the term 'revivalist.' We just want to play the music in the way we've learned it from the masters, both live (always best) and from recordings. To us, it's a continuing tradition." That's what we get here, living jazz, not merely a pastiche, provided by a group of musicians who've more than paid their dues over the years. From the opening relaxed Panama to Get Out of Here (and Go Home), this album includes well-considered treatments of a variety of tunes from standards to rarely played pieces, reflecting a lifetime's love and knowledge of the music. The title number, I've Got a Heart Full of Rhythm and the poignant ballad If We Never Meet Again are co-credited to Louis Armstrong and Horace Gerlach, who also wrote Swing That Music and edited the music section of Louis Armstrong's eponymous autobiography. The first includes some light, Cottrellish clarinet from Tommy Sancton (whose book is one of the best memoirs of New Orleans in recent times) and commanding horn from Clive. The second features a mellow trombone obbligato behind Clive's vocal and a fine solo from Freddie John plus stylish, Kyleish piano from Butch. Ostrich Walk gets a stylish workout with more fluent clarinet when Sancton shows shades of Darnell Howard to great advantage with sonorous bass from Tom Saunders. Tommy features in a similar vein on the neglected All That I Ask is Love from 1910 (as heard on Mr. Jelly's unforgettable Library of Congress recordings), supported by light brushwork from Norman Emberson. Tom Cat Blues is treated as a habanera, using Jelly's 'Spanish tinge' liberally and maybe touching on Cuban influences that molded the Buena Vista Social Club. We get some well-limned Archeyesque slidework from Freddie John here, but Mr. John excels himself particularly on Wild Man Blues, credited to both Louis and Mr. Jelly on the sheet music but originally copyrighted by Morton under the title Ted Lewis Blues. Freddie's subtle trombone perhaps incorporates elements of Trummy and Higgy's drive but voiced in his own style. Hoagy's Lyin' to Myself includes some elegant trumpet from Clive and some dextrous piano from Butch. Climax Rag eschews a frantic workout in favor of something more akin to the Morton interpretation with echoes of Albert Nicholas' eloquence and Alvin Alcorn's poise coupled with a touch of Lee Collins' heat, all incorporated along the way. Plenty of other highlights include unexpected shades of Yancey in an homage to Louis' S.O.L. Blues and a nod towards Ory in Loveless Love among many other pleasures. Here's to Volume Three!