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Eleanor presents The Band Stand on Saturday night from 7pm to 10pm.
When I was seventeen “It Was A Very Good Year” – so goes the song made famous in the 60s by Frank Sinatra and for me that was so true. I had just started working and was earning my first salary, so as a teenager I had spending power!
On the radio I was listening to the music of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eddie Cochrane, Petula Clark and Gary Puckett and The Union Gap but I was buying the LPs of music from the Bandstand era. Every weekend in our home my dad would be playing tunes of the Big Bands and we would hear the voices of Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald.
The sounds of the Ray Conniff Orchestra and Chorus would permeate every room in the house and unknowingly by osmosis I grew to love it all and many years and many salaries later I am still happily spending on CDs to further increase my collection, only now I’m privileged to be able to share it on Saturday evenings!
Like many of the listeners, the music of the Bandstand era is the music of my childhood and it brings back warm and wonderful memories. |
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JAZZ IN THE GARDEN
An afternoon of fun, German cuisine and good music all in the name of charity. Rotary JHB NC are hosting their annual fund-raiser to raise fund for several of their charity projects. The ticket includes an entry into several lucky draws. There will also be a platinum draw taking place with the tickets for the draw priced at R100 each.
Venue: German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
47 Oxford Road Cnr Waltham Road
Forest Town Johannesburg
Contact details: 0828717915
indiera25@googlemail.com | Date:2010/08/15 - 2010/08/15
Time:11h00-18h00
Entrance:R120
Type of Event: Swing bands, Standards, Show Tunes, Jazz | WINTER JAZZ CONCERT
The ‘Summer Jazz Concert’ held earlier this year proved to be a huge hit with audiences, and was also a marvellous fund-raising opportunity for the Lion’s Club and Kloofendal Nature Reserve. Stand by, then, for the sequel: ‘Winter Jazz Concert’! One of the special features of this jazz event, is that the music spills right out of the theatre. By that we mean that the fun begins as you step into the foyer, as the popular jazz pianist and singer Neal Robertson will be in the foyer from 4.30pm to warm up audiences with his own special brand of music while they stock up with refreshments.
Then, at 5pm, the Metro Jazz Ensemble will take to the stage. After interval, it’s the turn of the award-winning South African pianist Roland Moses who, along with the Roland Moses Quartet, will be the backing band for Denise Jannah, the jazz artist from the Netherlands who’s been setting international jazz festivals afire with her passionate vocalising.
Ms Jannah, who was born in Suriname, South America, moved to Holland with her family in the late 1970s. There, she studied music and singing. After she won a major international singing competition in 1989, her career shot into orbit. A born jazz singer with a unique voice, Ms. Jannah has many CD recordings to her credit, and has done lots of radio, stage and TV work, in addition to her festival appearances. This is a jazz event that you can’t afford to miss!
Venue: Joburg Promusica Theatre
Contact details: Computicket | Date:2010/07/25 - 2010/07/25
Time:17:00
Entrance:R150
Type of Event: Swing bands, Standards, Show Tunes, Jazz | CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DEAN HERRICK
Come and celebrate the life and times of Dean Herrick and hear his music performed by three organists perform on a Virtual Theatre Pipe Organ - A first for South Africa!
Venue: The Manor House, Bryanston/Fourways.
173 Main Road, close to Witkoppen Road Intersection.
Contact details: RSVP via Facebook and pianoboy@telkomsa.net | Date:2010/07/30 - 2010/07/30
Time:19:00 for 19:30
Entrance:R85 per adult
Type of Event: Swing bands, Standards, Show Tunes, Jazz |
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 The Jonny Cooper Orchestra has several cds out now the most popular of which played on the Saturday Bandstand is “Swing Safari” .
Find out more about them and their cds by visiting their website on www.bigband.co.za.
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 Retailers that stock needles for record players:
Johannesburg
Contact Chris in Benoni – email spuy@vodamail.co.za
The music store next to Edgars in Lakeside Mall in Benoni
New World Pharmacy in Menlyn Mall Pretoria
Screenvision – 17 Wright Street, Industria West – 011 247 1300
The Cresta Electronic Shop, on the lower level near Nedbank
Cape Town
There is a company in the Cape – mail order – Arcadia Home
Shopping Tel no. 021 981 8898
The Music Shop in Werdmuller Centre, Claremont Cape Town |
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 The Big Band Musical Appreciation Society
The Society meets on the second Sunday afternoon of each month in St Johns College, Houghton, Johannesburg, and their secretary, Barney Segal, can be contacted for any information on 011 615 3412.
The society was formed in the 1990’s and housed in Sable House in Braamfonteirn, before moving four years ago to their present location at the Jeffrey Auditorium in Houghton. Their chairman, Jack Mink, has emphasized the need for younger members to join the society. Their motto is “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got swing” and this describes exactly the music that is either shown on videos or DVD’s at their meetings, or is played from CD’s. Music collectors and speakers, such as Don Albert and Harry Fidler, will often give informative talks on the music of the 30’s and 40’s, and showcase those talks with slides and shows form their own personal collections.
A tea is served during the afternoon and is a chance for like-minded musicians and those with a love of Big Band music to get together and reminisce.
The Society meets on the second Sunday afternoon of each month in St Johns College, Houghton, Johannesburg, and their secretary, Barney Segal, can be contacted for any information on 011 615 3412. |
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