こんばんわ！お久しぶりです。 クリスマスイブの夜に相変わらず一人で居ります。 つい最近 パソコンを購入しまし た。木山さんから早くＥ−ｍａｉｌを使えるようにしろとのアドバイスがありまし て、やっとのことＥ−ｍａｉｌを出す次第です。今までは、古い一太郎しか使ってい なかったのでどぎまぎしています。 Ｅ−ｍａｉｌのアドレス：aaa73150@pop07.odn.ne.jpです。 一昨日，札幌の「よいところ北３条店」で飲んだのですが，佐古さん， マンドリンケースを抱えて居酒屋に登場し，みごとなまでに咀嚼されたビルモンロ ーの１曲（ものすごく有名な曲なのに曲名を思い出せないが）をいきなり披露。と なりのこあがりのお客さんからも拍手をいただきました。２次会はカンタールとい うハワイアンのお店に行き，広岡東一：ギターとボーカル，佐古道央：マンドリン とテナーボーカル，皿木伸彦：フィドル，という豪華メンバーで飛び入り演奏をこ なしてしまったのでした。 さて，ふるさと札幌のＯＢの面々が頑張っているのですから，私たちもそろそろ腰 を上げようではありませんか！ で，北大ブル研ＯＢの森下君がつくばでライブをやっているのでお知らせします。 実は１０月のライブのときに ，私と福原さんで見に行って，飛び入り参加してきました。久々の演奏は，弾けないけ れど楽しいものでした。学生時代のように全面的にブルーグラスに浸るのは無理と しても，ときどきは思い出したように遊んでみたいものです。つぎのライブは１２ 月２６日だそうです。19:00，20:00，21:00の３回のステージがあります。つくば はけっこう不便ですが，それに年末ですが，集まれる人は是非楽器を持って集結し ましょう。連絡の取れる人に情報を拡げて下さい。 ライブスポット ステーキハウス・クックバーン 土浦市宍塚町塚田1845 TEL0298-26-4129 土浦学園線近く、ゴルフ練習場およびパスタレストラン・コメスタの傍 T. K.Grassの定期ライブは毎月最後の金曜日（都合により変更もあり） 7:00〜、8:00〜、9:00〜の3回それぞれ30分のステージ バンドにはステーキ、飯およびビール付きだがギャラはない 北大OBバンドとして月一回の演奏を入れることは可能 バイロンバンドのライブに行ってきました。こちらに写真等。 ステファン・グラッペリが亡くなったそうです。89才。 From: Trish.O'Neil@BERT.CNNW.NET Organization: CrossRoads String Quartet http://members.tripod.com/~CRSQtet Subject: Re: Stephane Grapelli dies To: COMANDO@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU I know that this is a fiddle list, but I must post it. This is a very sad day. ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ (c The Associated Press) PARIS (AP) - Stephane Grappelli, a pioneer of jazz violin whose elegant swing charmed audiences around the world for decades, died today at age 89. Grappelli, who helped shatter jazz's image as an exclusively American art form, was the last surviving member of the Hot Club Quintet - a group that was the favorite of European jazz fans in the 1930s. The jazz violin pioneer died in a Paris clinic of complications following hernia surgery, according to his manager, Michel Chouanard. Born Jan. 25, 1908, Grappelli began his musical career at 15. He performed into the 1990s, recording more than 100 albums. ``I chose the violin because there is not too much competition,'' Grappelli once said modestly. ``Some are very good but there aren't a lot, like saxophonists.'' As a teen-ager, he won a scholarship to the Isadora Duncan school, where he received classical training in violin and piano, then continued his studies at the Paris Conservatoire. At about 19, he discovered the recordings of Louis Armstrong and violinist Joe Venuti, but some cafe patrons sneered at his attempts to play jazz on the traditionally classical instrument. After the Crash of 1929, Grappelli wandered the streets of Paris with his violin, playing for money and food. He met guitarist Django Reinhardt, and they struggled together. ``In France they didn't like jazz much,'' he once said. ``They wanted to hear the Charleston.'' In 1933 they joined bassist Louis Vola's orchestra at the Hotel Claridges. Between sets, the two would have jam sessions with Vola and other guitarists. Urged to stage their own concert, they impressed French critics Hugues Panassie and Charles Delaunay enough to make them the official combo of their jazz society, the Hot Club. The Quintet of the Hot Club of France became the most influential and popular European jazz band from 1935-39. Around Reinhardt's accompaniment, Grappelli constructed simple, elegant melodies. His style matured from encounters with American artists like Eddie South, Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins. World War II broke up the combo. When France declared war, Grappelli found himself in England, where he led a series of small groups and played during the Blitz with keyboardist George Shearing among others. ``We were playing a theater, and Beryl Davis, the singer, was with us,'' he said. ``Sometime in the middle, a bomb dropped. Beryl was singing `As Time Goes By.' We managed to get out. We were lucky.'' When bebop exploded on the scene in the 1950s, Grappelli began assimilating the style but remained identified harmonically with the Swing Era and was largely forgotten for more than a decade. Reinhardt died in 1953. Grappelli returned to touring in the 1960s, fronting a group similar to the original quintet of the 1930s. His sets were filled with songs of America's golden age of jazz: works by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter. Among his albums are ``Live at Carnegie Hall,'' ``Jazz Round Midnight,'' ``Plays Jerome Kern,'' ``Tivoli Gardens,'' ``Satin Doll,'' ``Stardust,'' ``For Django,'' and ``Plays Gershwin.'' A slight stroke in 1993 forced Grappelli to cancel one month of performances. In 1994, he had surgery to replace an artery in his neck, and that kept him off the stage for two months. ``I love to tour. I have to tour! I am like a shark; I won't stop,'' Grappelli once said. ``I will play until the final curtain.'' Funeral arrangements were incomplete. He is survived by a daughter, Evelyne, and a grandson, Gilles. |
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