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 LOUISIANA FAIRYTALE

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TRACKS

 MUSICIANS
1 Old Fashioned Swing Roger Marks (tbn/ldr)
2 Creole Love Call John Shillito (tpt/vocs)
3 Yes, Yes In Your Eyes Ken Rennison (alto/sop)
4 Diga Diga Do Eddie Edwards (bjo)
5 Louisiana Fairytale Terry Turland (bass)
6 Good Old New York Terry Lidiard  (dms)
7 I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me
8 Bugle Boy March
9 Apex Blues
10 Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong
11 Lambeth Walk
12 Undecided
13 Weary Blues

" . . . I had a letter to this programme last week which resurrected an old bone of contention that I'd thought had been laid to rest many decades ago. The correspondent asked why I seemed to be in love with the saxaphone, which he proclaimed "has no place in a traditional group, only serving to muddy the ensemble".

Well sir, love doesn't come into it, it's a fact of jazz life that were I to cast out the instrument in all its variations from this programme, very little music, either contemporary or historical would be left; and incedentally quite a lot of authentic New Orleans music would go out with the bath water.

It's not a happy time for saxaphones - a few weeks ago we had some stirring traditional jazz from the trombone and saxaphone front line of George Cole's Hot Five, and now along comes this, marching roughshod over the corpse of the old argument."

Humphrey Lyttelton, introducing Bugle Boy March.
The Best of Jazz, BBC Radio 2, 25th April 2005.

Louisiana Fairytale - Roger Marks Armada Jazz Band - RSCD822

Tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 13 recorded live at The Heathfield Inn, Honiton, Devon 25 January 2005.
Thanks to Carlos and Julie Fernandez.
Tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 recorded live at The Odd Wheel, Wembury, Plymouth 10 February 2005.
Thanks to Alan and Nada Gordon ("....best landlord and landlady in the West").
Recorded and produced by Raymer Sound (+44 (0)1823-662160) 

In gratitude for the dedication and hard work of the staff of Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, for every CD sold by the band £2 will be donated to the Plymouth and District Leukaemia Fund. Raymer Sound will also make a donation related to sales of this album.

 

 

 

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