Dixie Diehards at Ma Glockner's
May 15, 2008
| The Dixie Diehards
Jazz Band with
vocalist Dolly Fruzetti appeared at Ma Glockner's with some
New Orleans style,
upbeat Dixieland Jazz. Al
Shapiro trumpet, Paul Peterson soprano and tenor sax, Jim Kelleher
trombone, Bill Kass tuba, Bill Kiesewetter piano, Chris
Wadsworth banjo, and Lorri Inglis drums. MC and ebullient interlocutor
was Rick Foster. The theme was the musical character of New Orleans,
with Rick on vocals, Way Down Yonder In New
Orleans, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans, Joe Derensberg's
Louisian-i-a. Bill Kass opened
Spencer Williams' Basin St. Blues, with extraordinary
front line melody on his Conn tuba; Kelleher on trombone with
excellent phrasing and timing. Then just north of New Orleans
- Algiers Strut. St. James
Infirmary featured Shapiro's electrically-charged trumpet and Peterson's
growling tenor sax. |
Red Hot Mama, Dolly Fruzetti |
Rick Foster and Dolly |
| Rick introduced Dolly Fruzetti,
a fine vocalist new to our jazz scene. Dolly was retired until about
a year ago, and fortunately for us, has resumed her career. She was a
true red hot Mama, complete with boa, for
Hard Hearted
Hannah. Set two started with Royal Garden Blues, Rick
pleading Baby Won't You
Please Come Home, and moved to a tune dedicated to a fine lady, Sweet
Georgia Brown. Rick and Dolly followed with a rousing vocal duet on
Bye, Bye,
Blackbird. They switched moods with Eubie Blake's eloquent Memories of You.
Presenting a perfect example of the 1920's that Rick called, "an
era of nonsense", they turned to the shifting rhythms and
breathtaking pace of the Charleston,
and Everybody Loves My Baby. Dolly captivated the fans
with a medley of George M. Cohan's
Give My Regards to Broadway and Yankee Doodle Dandy,
with a punctuating drum flourish finale by Lorri Inglis. From the same era, they
resurrected the Original Dixieland Jazz Band's Back Home Again in
Indiana.
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Jim Kelleher |
Al Shapiro |
| Powerful tuba,
dexterous banjo and
nimble-fingered keyboard supported the whole front line. |
Bill Kiesewetter
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Chris Wadsworth |
Bill Kass |
Lorri Inglis |
| Dolly opened the
last set with I've Found a New Baby, Rick followed
with When You're Smiling and, keeping to the laughing/smiling
theme and getting the audience involved, Dolly broke out with the 1919
Smiles.
Rick unpacked his cornet for another lady's tune, Kansas City Kitty. |
parading with the 2nd line |
watch out for that soprano sax!
Paul Peterson |
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They concluded with Someday Sweetheart, and after a brief
"evangelical" from Rick, the band slipped into Closer Walk
and The Saints, marched into the crowd, picking up 2nd liners and
parading up and down the aisles. A typically uninhibited New Orleans
finale for a rousing, foot-stomping evening of Dixieland Jazz! |
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