The jazz international Sample
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Here is father Norman J O'Connor I'd like to tell you about a
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series of jazz programs that were all put together abroad
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and therefore we call it international jazz. It's a very
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delightful thing and I have been listening to jazz for a long time and
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of course my heart and spirit and everything else go with the American forms because we know it so well
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and we have certain pride about the fact that Jazz started here and it continues here and all the rest of
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it. But we also are aware of the fact that abroad in this means countries all around the
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world are awfully intrigued by American jazz forms and they have young
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musicians who are striving to identify in some fashion or another with the spirit that has made Jazz
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such a internationally well-known commodity so. What we've done is
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listen to pick from broadcasting materials that were taken from 12
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various countries some in Europe some in South Africa and some of course from Australia
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New Zealand and we think that we have picked dying subject to criticism on that but
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we feel that we've picked some materials that are quite representative very very
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stimulating to hear and very informative because it gives you a chance to kind of relate
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in grade to what you hear from abroad with what you're familiar with here in the States. And it
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makes a very attractive series of programs. There is material from
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Switzerland. And those of you who are familiar with jazz know that the Montreaux festival there has
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produced some wonderful things in the last few years. There's also material that comes out of Canada and in
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that group there's a young man who is very well-known with the Fifth Dimension His name is Don Clark
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and a drummer and he sits in with a small group under the direction of Don Thompson. He has some very
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melodic and very lyrical things that are extremely attractive. And then
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from all places you get a town or country like New Zealand and if you know anything about New Zealand
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you know that not much happens there other than just living. And there are two Dixieland groups both of
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both tracks and both of them that we have included and you're what they call traditional jazz.
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And it could be a group that would come right out of the hot streets of New Orleans and Bourbon Street the
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rest of it. There is a group that comes out of South Africa that's
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actually a French boy from Paris who had been living in Africa for some 10 years and he does a tune of
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Dizzy Gillespie. That's a classic thing and does it extraordinarily well the famous con LMA.
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There's even an old American tune called on Broadway which you may recall from other days in other
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circumstances. It's done by a group that has a young man who lived out in the
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brush country of Africa has heard an awful lot of the African rhythms about
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which everybody seems to be talking most of the time and he's incorporated this into some of the most sophisticated
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sounds that I think you're going to hear in a long time and then you go to to
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Yugoslavian to a band that's taken from as a grab Radio and Television Authority
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and they has a get have as a guest star farmer whom I think a lot of you would know in our
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farmers a brilliant trombone is brilliant to harness and trumpet player and it
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is he who sets against this rich setting of a.
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Most Unusual styled arrangement and then plays marvelous jazz horn and
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here it is coming from Yugoslavia. You can go to Germany and there's a name that a lot of you may recall
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because of the numbers of things that he's recorded over the years and is the band under the direction according to
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Hogg and he does two things which we use. There's also a group that
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includes the name of Albert mangles Dar which is a familiar name to those of you who
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have been following the Jazz travels and last few cures because Albert has worked here in the states
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he's a peer of the Newport at the Monterey Festival things like that so there are 12 of them
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in the 12 countries contributing material which I think you can be very proud of and
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certainly I am proud to just to hear them and to know them and appreciate what young people are
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doing in the jazz community throughout the world. It's very stimulating
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and I think each program as you know is only a half hour and yet they
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give it a substantial taste of what the jazz world is all about in our
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time. And it's one that's really to be. To be applauded. And one that I
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think that you enjoy and just to give you a feeling of what some of them are doing will
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play the Art Farm a farmer recording which has a big band taken from
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Yugoslavia. We'll also do a little bit of the kind LMA so that you get a feeling of what this
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young French piano player a refugee from Paris and South Africa is doing will even give you a
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little bit of a taste of Dixie then from New Zealand and you'll be surprised at how effective it will make your
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feet tapping even though their sophisticated feed and then possibly we can get in a little bit of what Don
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Thompson is doing out of Canada. But it's it's all material that says that you
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like and I'm sure the audiences that you're going to be playing in for would thoroughly enjoy it.
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Warm.
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