THE DELTA RAG A non- profit organization dedicated to the education, preservation and promotion of Traditional Jazz. NOVEMBER 2016 ISSUE #444 Meeting Location Change: November 6th. 2016 only: Changed to Clarion Inn and Suites in Stockton Just off Highway 99 at Waterloo Rd. (Hwy. 88) Our Web Site: http://www.stocktondixielandjazz.org November s Headliners: CHRIS BRADLEY S TRADITIONAL JAZZ BAND Chris Bradley Cornet Leader, Vocals - Started his own Traditional Jazz group in the 1990 s, and has since been performing in the Bay Area at a numerous venues. Chris Bradley s Traditional Jazz Band is a collection of well-seasoned local and San Francisco based musicians with rich musical backgrounds. Robert Boring -Trombone Dwayne Ramsey - Reeds, Vocals Mike Ross - Drummer, Vocals Rich Owens - Piano, Vocals Steve Doherty - Bass Bob Steffen - Banjo The band plays a mixture of Traditional Jazz tunes-- music of the 20's, 30's and New Orleans style jazz in a bouncy rhythmic style that is ideal for both listening and dancing. They performed together at The Pleasanton Hotel for four years, The Sunol Jazz Cafe for four years and are presently at The Castle Rock Restaurant in Livermore. Page 3
The San Joaquin Dixieland Jazz Society SJDJS 2016 OFFICERS President...Frank Lindskoog Past President...Dick Lockwood VP/Music Director...Carl Kaiser ( Carl s email: keybonekaiser@hotmail.com ) Secretary...Barbara Baughman Treasurer...Geri Eckert Promotional Mgr...(Vacant) Equipment Mgr...Larry Tyrell Member at Large....Judith Griffiths Member at Large...Kerry Lockwood Historian...Larry Tyrell Delta Rag Editor..Dick Lockwood Delta Rag email: editor@stocktondixielandjazz.org Delta Rag Contributors.... Frank Lindskoog, Carl Kaiser, Dick Lockwood, Geri Eckert, Dave Tygett, Ruth Grijalva, Larry Tyrell, Billie Ricker Photos: Kerry and Dick Lockwood VOLUNTEERS Admission Desk Coordinator: Judy Griffiths Admiss. Desk Volunteers: Audrey Gulick, Beverly Martin, Reva Williams, Julie Schumacher, Edith Sanchez, Elizabeth Gunter, Alice Hannan, Judy Griffiths. Subs are: Virginia Weins, Christina Aasen, Mary Doherty, Larry Tyrell Raffle - Dave & Marlena Tygett Web Administrator - Kerry Lockwood Website. http://www.stocktondixielandjazz.org Equipment Crew: Larry Tyrell, Mark Kramer, Carl Kaiser Frank Lindskoog, Dick Lockwood, Carl Warmdahl & Frank s Utes Nomination Committee: Jan & Ellie Buhlert The DELTA RAG is published monthly by the San Joaquin Dixieland Jazz Society. The submission deadline for material to publish is the day of the session preceding the desired issue date. MONEY MATTERS: For November 2016 Are you going Trick or Treating????? Me neither! But I will be looking forward to the time change on Sunday, NOV. 6 @ 2am. Don't forget to change your clocks (BACK ONE HOUR). We were "extremely" upside in October.. more than normal. You'll see below that our INSURANCE came due in addition to our regular expenses. We took in some membership dues, the raffle brought in a nice lump of money and the kitty jar donations did well. The "front door jar" took in $47 and the "jammers jar" did a nice $42. Thank you to all who donate to keep our jazz club going. Please continue to help. INCOME: $468.00 Door:...184. Member dues... 75. Raffle... 120. Kitty jars (2)... 89. EXPENSES: $1,625.12 Rent...550. Band...500. Rag printing... 23.54 P.O. (stamps)... 46.75 ASCAP... 4.83 Insurance...500. See you in November!!!! Ger~ Make today a beautiful day! For more information, including ad prices and directions on placing your Ad, go to our web site and click on the owl at the bottom of our front page. Or, you can click this link to go there now: http://www.stocktondixielandjazz.org/ Page 4
OUR OCTOBER 2016 GUEST BAND: THE MIDNIGHT ROSE Page 5
PRESIDENT S REPORT - For NOVEMBER 2016 Greetings of thanksgiving my friends. I never tire of extolling the virtues of music. Another one; Fun. How can one resist smiling when hearing Mairsy Doats or Abba Dabba Honeymoon? And I like and am entertained by tunes tastefully played in a tempo not intended by their composer. Such as Happy Days Are Here Again played ultra-slowly as a ballad. [the composer intended it to celebrate the great depression s end.] Conversely, some ballads, such as Indian Love Call, lend themselves to rhythmic tempos. Your Board s attention is directed towards formalizing the installation of us incumbents. No one has answered the call to volunteer for nomination and election to relieve any of us. We have been receiving musician-donations to support our Club but there are not many of us to do so. I have engaged members of a Boy Scout troop-which happens to meet here. They will help transport sound equipment to the Elks building from the storage trailer in preparation for the sessions. We old guys surely need the help. URT of the month: human suspension bridges: Until the latest 20 years or so heavy loads were manhandled through a combination of hand trucks and arms-out-stretched-lifting each end, resulting in severe back stress. Then along came some genius who adapted and applied the principal of long-span bridge support: hanging the load from suspended cables. So now one sees a new refrigerator unpacked outside and delivered to its kitchen spot by two guys with straps passing beneath it and vertically up to their shoulders. They bear the load axially down their spines, instead of away from their torsos, risking back muscle strain. Ingenious! Talk about your bad news/good news! You have had the misfortune to have been shanghaied on the 19 th century Barbary coast and made to serve in the hot filthy hold of a Galley ship as one of 20 oarsmen rowing the sail-less vessel. The first mate comes down and says : First, there will be an extra ration of grog for all today. Second, the captain has decide to take up water skiing There will be a short board meeting following the next session. Your Prez. Frank Lindskoog (EDITOR S NOTE) BAND BATTLE AD: PLEASE GO TO THEIR WEB SITE FOR MUCH MORE INFORMATION ON VARIOUS LOCATONS AND DATES THROUGHOUT NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. http://www.battleofthebigbands.com Page 6
SEEN AT THE SCENE IN OCTOBER, 2016 By Billie Ricker, Editor Emeritus - The Delta Rag It was an outstanding day of music and laughter. Even as I got misty-eyed when Midnight Rose played their beautiful rendition of Memories of You, although I wasn t laughing, I was definitely enjoying the moment. Dannie Balser really had us laughing as she described their recent outdoor gig. With smokers on both sides of them. Not cigarette smokers, but bratwurst type smokers. The kind that make smoke that makes your eyes smart and your throat get dry. And then, when they adapted to smoky air, the chain-saw contest started. Yep, big, loud, 2-man chain-saws! Dannie said they were so glad to be playing inside at our session. Their pianist, Bonnie Otto, added that she had played a 3-hour gig in a cigar bar that was a challenge also. Edie Sanchez was escorted by her handsome grandson, Paul, who is visiting from Oregon. He said he came with Edie to one of our jazz sessions when he was 13. We enjoyed meeting him, and hope he returns before too long. Audrey Gullick has an excused absence for November. She is going to Arizona to see her grandkid play in a baseball tournament. I know she will enjoy it, win, lose or draw. Draw? They don t draw in baseball, they do that in Art class. We missed Marlena Tygett, our lovely and vivacious sunshine lady. She is recovering from knee replacement surgery, but expects to be on hand for our November session. Marlena sends cards to our members who are ill, or otherwise in need of sunshine, and the club appreciates that very much. She is also half of the Raffle team. And a beautiful person. I asked Betty Warmdahl for news, and she said, You don t want news, you want gossip. Well the gossip is, her husband, Carl was playing drums with Midnight Rose, but it wasn t him keeping the beat. He has a Pacemaker! Hahahahaha. That s a joke. Okay, it wasn t funny. Sorry. One of the treats of the day was seeing Bob Noren here from Ecuador. He is a dear man, a terrific musician, and a former Board member. He is going to have a Pacemaker implanted also. Many of the best people are getting them. I have one myself. I got mine because my heart was only beating half the time. I just thought it was because my heart went with Cliff when he died. Albert Galaviz was wanting to know how to reach Frank Solari and Gabe Sallah. I miss those guys too, and wish they would drop in and say hello once in awhile. Tony Moreira was reminiscing about the days when the late Larry Dalonzo was active in the Society. Larry called himself Vertically challenged. Tony said at one of the festivals, Larry wanted to dance with a very tall gal, so he stood up on the edge of the stage, and was just the right height to dance with her as she stood on the floor. Larry must have made a thousand bird houses for the club raffle. I still have one of them although the building inspector would think it needs work. Larry always gave Wilt Fernandez and Bob Hirsch credit for helping with his projects. A warm welcome to new member, Candace Mano. I look forward to seeing her (and the rest of you too) on November 6. We ll have a ball! Page 7
P. P. (PAST PRESIDENT) SEZ - For November 2016 The Wednesday night live-jazz sessions at the Straw Hat Pizza Place in Rancho Cordova are very well attended. (See Support Live Dixieland page 8 for the November lineup.) These sessions remind me of the old days with Roy Harper s Riverbank Blues Band at Shakeys Pizza on 57th St. in Sacramento The night always concluded with our playing of the Torch (AKA: the Kansas City Torch.) Gee but it s great when the gangs all gone home..etc. ) Our Fans (AKA: The Choir) would always be there, wearing their red T- shirts, and would sing along with us for our finale. Jill (Johnson) Harper was the pianist. I recently found my old Riverbank T Shirt. I told her I got it on OK but had to have help to get it back off. Darn thing must have shrunked over the years in storage. Ya Think? ALICE BLUE GOWN is your homework assignment for November. If your feet aren t taping when you hear this month s U Tube homework assignment, you want to get your pulse and blood pressure checked ASAP! Cut and paste this link in your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqogtlr_zde Yes! I know it's usually a waltz.but not this time! This is a really good driving four-beat up tempo tune by one of my favorite jazz bands. The lineup: Red Nichols, coronet, Mannie Klein, trumpet, Miff Mole, trombone, Dudley Fosdick, mellophone, Fud Livingston, clarinet Jimmy Dorsey, alto sax, Adrian Rollini, bass sax, Arthur Schutt, piano, Carl Kress, guitar, Vic Berton, drums. Recorded in New York, February 16, 1929. Does that Jimmy Dorsey Alto Sax sound like a C Melody Sax to you? Trivia Time: Alice blue is a pale tint of azure blue that was favored by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. The hit song "Alice Blue Gown" (inspired by Longworth's signature gown for Alice Roosevelt) premiered in Harry Tierney's 1919 Broadway musical Irene. The musical was made into a film in 1940 starring Anna Neagle and Ray Milland. I told this story before but it fits nicely here: My Dad (Howard Duke Lockwood) had an ice cream-cone-in-the-forehead moment once...a very long time ago. Red Nichols was working in the Mare Island (Vallejo) shipyards during WW II. At nights, Red would come to Oakland and jam with some of the musicians at the Dime Jigs (AKA: The Rose Room). He and Dad became good friends. After one of their jam sessions, Red said: Duke, I m going down to Hollywood to play music and make a movie or two. I want you to be my trombone player. Dad recalls his response was Nah, Red. That s OK. You go ahead. You ll be back in a few weeks anyway. The rest, of course, is music history. Red made the movie (several in fact), and was a big hit in the land of LA LA. Duhhhhh! One of Red Nichols bands was known as the Arkansas Travelers (c. 1920s). And, coincidentally, mah frenz and fambly, I m fixin to be out-cheer on 15 November fer a week, to see mah yunguns an thar yunguns in Arkansas. Humidity is done gone for the yarr and it bees tolerable nass bak thar rat naw. Here are some Arkansas words I be practicing fer mah trip: Jeet? = Did you eat? Ya Wanner? = Do you want to? Yotter = You ought to. Tuther = The other. Winner Tam = Winter time Yunguns = the kids Fer = For Mah = my. Chew = a Tobacco product Fit to be tied = Angry Tarred = Tired Whut = what. All Y'all = The Intensive form of y'all (which = ever-body.) Cattywampus = Askew. Example: The storm knocked the boat cattywampus and it started to take on water. That s 30 for November 2016 Dick Lockwood - Editor The Delta Rag Registered Sax Defender - Immediate Past President SJDJS Page 8
Ode To Friend by Ruth Grijaiva This is a poem, written just for you. Ever so loving, ever so true. Ever a helper, a kind one, too. What would the world do, without you? God gives us friends, to teach us to love, Like, Jesu, who guides us from heaven above. Board Member At Large Judy Griffiths - Thank You Admission Desk Volunteers! Remember your 2016 Dues are due. (1/2 Price for the remainder of 2016) Please show your Card at the door. Clip This Coupon >>>>> This is our Introductory Pass ( Get in Free card). Use this card to give to a friend or family member that you want to invite to one of our Sessions. (So that we will know who referred them, please add your name and date at the top of the card where indicated) Page 9 Equipment Manager Larry Tyrell From October 2016 For the past meeting Frank Lindskoog hired four boy scouts to come in and help bring the equipment in. Two of their dads came in also and they helped set up some of the equipment. When Carl Kaiser came in all he had to do was fine tune the amplification system. I report this second hand as I ran the "Urban Cow" half Marathon in Sacramento, andi didn't get in on time to help. Frank, Carl and myself got the equipment back to the shed. It was a good day
DA VEEP SEZ - For November- 2016 By: Carl Kaiser VP/MD A great time was had by all at our September session. After all, when the Midnight Rose Jazz Band is in the hall, one cannot help but have a great time! It must be in the the MRJB s DNA! The folks in the band are all quite familiar to the SJDJS. Dannie Balser leads the group which includes Nancy Kreis, Bob Williams, Bonnie Otto, Ruben Smith and Carl Warmdahl. It was great to see Carl back in the fold playing the drums after a much-too-long absence! As is generally the case, the jammers once again provided some great music. Our jammers this month included Gerry Eckert, Charlie Gehlbach, Bob Gonzales, Stephen Lee, Frank Lindskoog, Dick Lockwood, Jim Lucas, Bob Noren, Larry Tyrell, Chris Williams, and Dick Williams. In November, we will be treated to the sounds of the Chris Bradley Jazz Band. As an ensemble, they will be making their first visit to SJDJS, and will play some down home traditional New Orleans jazz tunes. There will also be several reunions among the musicians as several members of Chris band and SJDJS members go back four or five decades! If you are looking for something to do on a Tuesday evening, Chris band appears every the 2nd and 4th Tuesday at the Castle Rock Restaurant in Livermore. See you at our next session on November 6. You can reach me at: keybonekaiser@hotmail.com Carl Kaiser, VP/MD SUPPORT LIVE DIXIELAND First Sunday of the month - Noon to 5:00 pm: San Joaquin Dixieland Jazz Society See our Web page http://www.stocktondixielandjazz.org/ for more information on time, bands and directions >>>> TO THE CLARION INN AND SUITES Waterloo Rd. Stockton >>> THIS MONTH ONLY. SEE PAGE 1, 2 AND 3 OF THIS ISSUE. November 6th. it s Chris Bradley s Jazz Band. Plus You Jammers Bring Your Ax! We will put you to work. Contact our VP/Music Director, Carl Kaiser to schedule a time slot. E mail Carl Kaiser at: keybonekaiser@hotmail.com Second Sunday of the month - Noon to 5:00 pm: Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society. Elks Lodge, Riverside Drive - Sacramento. Web: http://www.sacjazz.org/ Second Sunday of the month - Monterey Hot Jazz Society - Monterey Elks Club Web: http://www.montereyhotjazzsociety.org/ Third Sunday of the month - Noon to 5:00 pm: Modesto Traditional Jazz Society Web: http://www.modestojazz.com/wp/ Fourth Sundays - 1 to 5 pm: South Bay Traditional Jazz Society - Sunnyvale Elks Lodge. Web: http://www.sbtjs.org/ Last Sunday of Month - Pismo Beach - Basin Street Regulars Jazz Club Web: http://www.pismojazz.com/index.html 1 st & 3 rd Tuesdays - 5:30 to 7:30 pm: Cell Block 7 Moved to Clarion Inn & Suites, Sutter Room, Stockton Web: http://www.cellblock7.net/ Weds Nights - 6 to 9 pm: You can catch the Creole Jazz Kings at the Clarion Inn, Modesto. (209) 521-1612 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/creolejk Wednesday Night Music Straw Hat Pizza Rancho Cordova, CA (916) 363-5050 6:30 to 8:30 PM (GET THERE EARLY THE JOINT S PACKED!) Web: http://www.strawhatpizza.com/store/?storeid=24 November Straw Hat Schedule: 11-2 Jim Maihack and the Norcal Jazz Brigade 11-9 Bonnie Otto and the Pub Crawlers 11-16 Norm Gary s Four for Fun 11-23 Gold Country Society Auchestra 11-30 Dr. Bach and the Jazz Practitioners Page 10
Raffle Ramble For The October 2016 Session Here are the winners in October: Midnight Rose CD won by Barbara Baughman, the Candy Dish won by Don Luthringer, the Blue Sequin Top donated by Jeri Eckert won by Tony Moreira (Who gave it to Billie Ricker) Three Books donated by Pat Gonzalez went to Nancy Kreis, The Big Band cassette set donated by Pat Anderson was won by Reva Williams, The Best of Swing Bands L P record set also donated by Pat Anderson was won by Christina Aasen. The Thanks for the Memory LP Record set also donated by Pat Anderson went to Paul Pastor, the Chocolate Babba Cake was won by Marge Kameriz, the cinnamon coffee cake went to Judi Griffith, Larry Tyrell got the pumpkin pancake mix, two red wines went to Audrey Gulick, Vic Grijalva got the olive oil and Jack Karow took the orchid. You raised $120 this month-thanks. If you left early you missed a great jam set with Midnight Rose and our jammers. Attention Friends: If you know of someone who is ill or in need of cheeri like their name on the Sunshine List Please phone Marlena Tygett at: uld We Won! (When you win, the SJDJS wins too!) Support the SJDJS...buy raffle tickets! Bid high and often! Every month Dave and Marlena Tygett run the raffle for our Society. Thank You, both! Page 11
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SAN JOAQUIN DIXIELAND JAZZ SOCIETY P.O. BOX 4746 STOCKTON, CA 95204 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED www.stocktondixielandjazz.org SPECIAL DEAL - 2017 SJDJS Memberships went on sale in October! New members who join in November will get a 14-month membership. (That s right new members who join for 2017, their membership card will also be good for the last quarter of 2016!) COMING EVENTS: NOVEMBER 6 The Chris Bradley Jazz Band DECEMBER 4 Mission Gold Jazz Band JANUARY 1-2017 BIG NEW YEARS DAY PARTY WITH OUR JAMMERS FEBRUARY 5 2017 SUPER BOWL SUNDAY JAMMERS DON T TELL THE SCORE Your Membership Dues are Important! ~ They help keep SJDJS Dancing! Page 14