Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The best thing Sidney Bechet ever did for jazz is to mentor a young alto/soprano sax genius called Johnny Hodges! Duke Ellington could never have reached the pinnacles he did, both as a composer and bandleader, without his most influential, distinctive and distinguished soloist for half a century! Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:15 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Thanks Lluis, Jayanand, and Philippe. I liked Sidney Bechet too - my > uncle was a jazz fiend! > > On music, during my flight out to Nice, as we were too mean to pay the > Ryanair sit together premium, I found myself sitting beside a tattoo > artist who was returning home after a conference in Dublin. We got > talking and he showed me his work. Even though I'm an ink virgin, I was > impressed by his portfolio, but am still determined to keep my flesh > unsullied until the crematorium fires roar for me. > > Anyway, Naho is his name and he is originally from Tahiti. He now lives > in France, but travels all over the world to do specialist tattoos, > especially on musicians. Turns out he was also a musician and told me to > look up Naho, Tahiti on Youtube. The following day, at the apartment in > juan-les-Pins, I looked him up and found > this... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOOHBUhVBCg > > and this... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQtxm-IT4E > > He didn't sing for me on the plane :-) > > Douglas > > > On 26/06/2019 05:30, Philippe via LUG wrote: > > Thanks for the series Douglas. Nice place and colours. > > > > Hope your wife gets good news today. > > > > Here?s music that might fit with your takes :-) > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tg7sNqgYAI > > > > > > Amities > > > > Philippe > > > > > > > >> Le 26 juin 2019 ? 00:44, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> a ?crit : > >> > >> Haven't been near the LUG as I headed off to France on a whim for a > brief holiday as my wife had treatment and a review today. Decided on the > Sunday and flew out two days later as the weather was very poor here. We > stayed in Juan-les-Pins on the Cote d'Azur and enjoyed some decent heat for > eight days. All very relaxing, but I'm back in low temperate land again > which hopefully will change shortly as the weather people are intimating > heavily that we just might see some sun soon. I hope they're right. > >> > >> I took the eminently portable Fuji X100S and did take a few shots on > the fly as I never got enough time just to concentrate on photography. Here > is a link to the first of ten. Just click right. > >> > >> > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/France/Cote+dAzur+2019/Juan-les-Pins+Sky.jpg.html > >> > >> All can be enlarged if you so desire. Comments and criticisms are > welcome as per usual. > >> > >> Douglas > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information