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From the bandstand : sixty-five years of gigs, clubs, studios, freaks and frolics / text & cartoons by Kevin Clark.

Title
From the bandstand : sixty-five years of gigs, clubs, studios, freaks and frolics / text & cartoons by Kevin Clark.
Author
Clark, Kevin, 1940-
Publication
  • Martinborough : Ngaio Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
113 pages : colour illustrations; 24cm
Alternative Title
From the band stand
Subject
  • Clark, Kevin, 1940- > Anecdotes
  • Musicians > New Zealand > Anecdotes
  • Jazz musicians > New Zealand > Anecdotes
  • Sound recording industry > New Zealand > Anecdotes
  • Composers > New Zealand > Anecdotes
  • New Zealand > Social life and customs > Anecdotes
Note
  • "Wellington pianist and trumpet player Kevin Clark is one of New Zealand's top concert and recording jazz musicians, who in the past 60 years has also played many gigs as a dance band and nightclub musician. He was a student and tutor at the Massey University Conservatorium of Music. He describes many of his experiences, polite and not so polite, and at the same time chronicles cultural shifts in Kiwi social history including the end of the six o'clock swill, the rise and fall of booze barns and dine & dance, and the decline of community hall 'socials' complete with beer kegs, plates of savs and raffle draws"--Publisher's information.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Preface -- Introduction -- 1. In the beginning: South Africa (Schooldays ; First paid gig ; A jazz epiphany ; Capte Town ; Killjoys ; Gaudeamus igitur ; Port Elizabeth ; Back in Cape Town ; Mobile music ; Distinct flavour ; The spit key) -- 2. Eng-a-land swings -- 3. New Zealand (First gig ; To the Queen ; Cock ; He's too unreliable ; The Queen again ; Wrong band, wrong gig ; He's gone ; Is-a-Italian ; Memories ; The light of life ; PA problems ; The MC ; Happy snaps ; The backflip ; The botched opportunity ; Token Pakeha ; Wellington Musicians' Club ; Music for crims ; NZ Musicians Union)
  • 4. The 40 watt banana (Trying it on ; Manawatu Jazz Festival ; Making a pop record ; Something weird was bound to happen) -- 5. Fran (The Napoleon Room ; Television ; 'On Saturday' with Brian Edwards ; Tauranga ; The reel ; Al dente) -- 6. More tales (Air piano ; Free jazz ; Bow and the wild saxman ; She wears my ring ; Dixie dudes ; Gotcha ; NZBC studios, didj and the djembe ; A dogs' show ; The best laid plans ; Person of interest ; That's kulcha ; She said yes ; No accounting for public taste ; Bass drum salsa ; Noisy audiences vs the Great European Songbook ; The tip ; Darbuka vs bongos ; Mana from Mana)
  • 7. The hooning horn ; 8. Things ain't what they used to be -- 9. Coda: personal notes -- Appendix: Discography.
ISBN
  • 9780994134905
  • 0994134908
OCLC
947775588
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library