THE KW DIXIE ALL STARS WHILE SITTING AROUND ONE EVENING, ENJOYING A LIBATION, OR TWO, (NATURALLY), AND LISTENING TO DIXIELAND JAZZ, (NATURALLY) THE QUESTION CAME UP “WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN IF WE ASKED SIX OF OUR FINEST MUSICIANS IF THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN PERFORMING TOGETHER FOR US?” SO WE ASKED THEM! AND THE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE WAS A RESOUNDING YES!! FROM EACH ONE OF THEM, AND THUS WAS BORN THE KW DIXIE ALL STARS RAY PODHORNIK – TRUMPET, LEADER, LOCAL TRUMPETER EXTRAORDINAIRE, PERFORMS WORLD WIDE (ie: China, Japan), WITH NUMEROUS MUSICIANS IN A VARIETY OF MUSICAL STYLES INCLUDING DIXIELAND JAZZ – (some of you fans may remember Ray with ‘THE DIXIE RAMBLERS’ w. ‘Johnny Lee’ & others at ‘The Blue Moon’ and other venues years ago) JAMIE MacPHERSON – BANJO PAST CANADIAN BANJO CHAMPION, PERFORMS REGULARLY WITH THE “RAGWEED JAZZ BAND”, “THE HOT FIVE JAZZMAKERS” AND AT NUMEROUS PRIVATE AND PUBLIC EVENTS WITH BANDS OR WITH HIS EQUALLY TALENTED WIFE JOY. GLENN ANDERSON – DRUMS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS OUR CLUB “HOUSE DRUMMER” HE IS LOVED BY ALL. A DEDICATED MUSICIAN IN THE TORONTO JAZZ SCENE, AND ACROSS CANADA, CO-LEADER OF “THE RED HOT RAMBLE”, A REGULAR WITH “DINNY”, ALEX PENGMAN AND MANY OTHERS. ABBEY SCHOLSBERG – BASS MEMBER OF “CLUB DJANGO”, “THE JOHN-WAYNE SWINGTET”, “THE HOT FIVE JAZZMAKERS”, AND FIRST CALL FOR MANY OTHERS. A GIFTED MUSICIAN. LEN “BOOTS” GOSLING – TROMBONE A LONG TIME MEMBER OF THE ‘WORLD FAMOUS’ “CLIMAX JAZZ BAND”, LEADER OF “THE FREEWAY JAZZ BAND”. ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF JAZZ AT ‘THE LANC’ IN 1978. IT ALL STARTED WITH LEN AND “THE SENSATION JAZZ BAND” RONNIE JOSEPH – CLARINET ONE OF NEW YORK’S HOTTEST CLARINET PLAYERS, A LONG TIME FRIEND OF THE KW (LANC) JAZZ FANS, DEVOTEE OF JACK MAHEU, PEANUTS HUCKO, & PEE WEE RUSSELL. RONNIE ‘SWINGS.’ JON SEIGER – PIANO, TRUMPET, VOCALS ALSO FROM NEW YORK, A GENIUS ON BOTH TRUMPET AND PIANO, A REMARKABLE ENTERTAINER, ALSO A LONG TIME FRIEND OF OUR JAZZ CLUB, PLUS, ONE OF A FEW ‘DEAF’ MUSICIANS PERFORMING THESE DAYS.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:22:50 +0000
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