The Anti Jazz Campaign....ongoing?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"On New Year’s Day 1934 over
three thousand people from
South Leitrim and surrounding
areas marched through Mohill
to begin the Anti – Jazz
campaign. The procession was
accompanied by five bands and
the demonstrators carried
banners inscribed with slogans
such as ‘Down with Jazz’ and
‘Out with Paganism.’ A
meeting was then held in the
Canon Donohoe Memorial Hall
organised by Fr. Conefrey and
Canon Masterson, the parish
priest of Mohill.

Messages were read out from
prominent personalities who
had given their support to the
campaign. Cardinal MacRory
heartily wished the Co. Leitrim
executive of the Gaelic League
success in its campaign against
all night jazz dancing which he
described as ‘suggestive and
demoralising.’ He referred
to these dances as, ‘a fruitful
source of scandal and of ruin,
spiritual and temporal,’ and
wondered, ‘to how many poor
innocent young girls have they
not been the occasion of
irreparable disgrace and life-
long sorrow.’ "

The background to Ken Loach's latest opus.

BN.

Kids, just say NO.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep Irish Priests, the IRA and Uncle Jo; a trio of doom if ever there was ....

Land! Freedom! Just Say Yes!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Whereas in Wales the reverse was true.

Who can forget the great "A Train" strike of 1936 when the Welsh miners held a six week sit in because the Tory owners refused to pipe Duke Ellington thro the pits?

Later they booked Dexter Gordon to play live at the coalface but he was a tad too tall.They got Little Walter instead.

Good gig.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

trio of doom

It's the next thing on my pile of CDs to play - I got it out yesterday. How's that for coincidence?

The BBC's idea of jass in the '30s was Henry Hall's band playing The Teddy Bears' Picnic.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

The BBC's idea of jass in the '30s was Henry Hall's band playing The Teddy Bears' Picnic.

... that Oirish tub thumper might have had a point!


synchronicity!!! Chas'll be down that like a rabbit through glass ....

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... that Oirish tub thumper might have had a point!


synchronicity!!! Chas'll be down that like a rabbit through glass ....

"(Lord) Reith's own comments didn't help.
He said he admired Mussolini and
talked in 1939 of Hitler's
'magnificent efficiency'. He also had
a sneaking admiration for the
German broadcasters: 'Germany has
banned hot jazz and I'm sorry that
we should be behind in dealing with
this filthy product of modernity.'"

From the official history of the BBC.

Our national broadcaster...

WTF.


BN.

[charles t]

synchronicity!!! Chas'll be down that like a rabbit through glass ....

Exactamundo, Calumbo!

Speaking of Johnny Mac...

(I have reminisced before about this incident...for the unwary, here goes again):

In the same time period in which McLaughlin and Carlos Santana had released 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' - the group appeared at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium all wearing white flowing garment-things (except for Billy Cobham...wearing a white muscle tee-shirt).

Adopting a solemn, prayerful stance...motionless.

Hey! This is a rock audience...whistling, jumping up-and-down.

SUDDENLY A VOICE FROM THE HEAVENS ERUPTS:

" ALL YOU UNHOLY MOTHERFU&KERS, SHUT UP! "

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

in a silent way huh

that Oirish priest gets around a bit dunnheee?

[charles t]

Calum: Thanks mucho, for that audio of the Santana/McLaughlin concert which I attended!

The only other such animal in my collection (maybe other than some Jazz At The Phil's) which I heard live, is a bootleg of Eberhard Weber's COLOURS with Charlie Mariano...which I caught in L.A. March 9, 1978.

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"Khrushchev responded to
consumerism more diplomatically
than to cultural consumption. In
response to American jazz
Khrushchev stated: “I don’t like
jazz. When I hear jazz, it’s as if I
had gas on the stomach. I used to
think it was static when I heard it
on the radio.” (well if he would listen to ECM Radio).

Concerningcommissioning artists during the Thaw, Khrushchev declared: “As
long as I am president of the
Council of Ministers, we are going
to support a genuine art. We
aren’t going to give a kopeck for
pictures painted by jackasses.”

K and Lord Reith.... never seen together in one room?

Forwards!

BN.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Lithuanian Jazz in Brief...

Back in Lithuania's first period of
independence (1918-1940), the
country was part of swinging Europe.
Nearly every Lithuanian town had its
own jazz band, and traditional jazz
repertoire was performed by
prestigious orchestras under the
leadership of Mykolas Hofmekleris,
Abraomas Stupelis, Danielius
Pomerancas. True, the academic
public was not particularly
enamoured with this type of music,
and in 1925 the Lithuanian press
was encouraging the country to
follow the example of England - to
resist jazz music and dancing as
being devoid of taste and culture -
even to the extent of outlawing it in
some restaurants. Today this
information not only proves that jazz
did exist in Lithuania, it is also an
indicator of how alien it was to the
Lithuanian mentality - the fact which
could probably explain some of the
trends in present-day Lithuanian
jazz as well. Ultimately, jazz was
being played back then, with the
first official Lithuanian jazz orchestra
(leader Abraomas Stupelis) launched
under the auspices of Kaunas Radio
in 1940. The musicians improvised
freely and with confidence, and the
band fulfilled all the requisite jazz
orchestra standards. Unfortunately,
it survived only until WWII.

After the war, when it became
dangerous even to use this name,
"jazz bands" vanished from Soviet
occupied Lithuania. Jazz was
prohibited during the Cold War for
being pro-American. The cultural
ideology of that period was reflected
in such ludicrous phrases as "one
step from saxophone to knife", "jazz -
the fat man's music", and "jazz
players today - traitors tomorrow".



"Fat Mans Music..."


I fwownd my thrill...On Bleeeewberry Hill...


BN.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well EL Senor the ineffably anarchic spirit of the art requires FREEDOM innit .... only granted when the DDR recognised the forex potential of free improv eh .... a tradition that continues in the present day capitalist Metropolis ..

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well EL Senor the ineffably anarchic spirit of the art requires FREEDOM innit .... only granted when the DDR recognised the forex potential of free improv eh .... a tradition that continues in the present day capitalist Metropolis ..

Oddly enough I was thinking of requesting a track from Mike Wesrbrook's take on that or his "Cortage" to tie into Alyns request for WW1 suggestions. The later is wonderfully savage.

BN.

[Alyn_Shipton]

Just caught up with this thread. Ken Loach seems to be a bit behind the times. Christine Tobin, Ruth Fitzsimons and I made a radio programme about it 2 years ago which won a New York Radio award last year. Read all about it here:

http://www.ubcmedia.com/smoothoperations/smooth-opertations/out-with-paganism-case-study/

[Serial_Apologist]

Just caught up with this thread. Ken Loach seems to be a bit behind the times. Christine Tobin, Ruth Fitzsimons and I made a radio programme about it 2 years ago which won a New York Radio award last year. Read all about it here:
http://www.ubcmedia.com/smoothoperat...sm-case-study/

Fantastic Alyn - and not only because I'm a huge fan of Christine Tobin!

I wonder if R3 would broadcast that programme, or whether it would be seen as too risky these days.