European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jazz talk by Joe Weisel jazz writer july 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 memories of Eubie what can one weary old scribe say about three Days of nonstop jazz in All its myriad forms alter unfurling his fingers from seven noon of gripping the steering wheel and commanding them to per Tom on the typewriter at three to the morning poll Knock ant a full report on the Northsea jazz festival for next weeks column for heres the Story at one meeting in who a Jan legend maybe most of you cats out there Are too Young to an pet cite the sensations that ran up my spine when Frank Furt promoter Dieter Nentwig grabbed me in the hallway of the Hagues Congress Center and asked me if i had met his fiend Eubie ill try to explain it anyway id love i fairly cried into dieters ear As he ushered me past the Security Blake was sitting listening to Germany barrelhouse jazz band do their thing at he third edition of what is in the process of be coming the continents most important summer jazz fes said this is my Friend Joe Weisel who works for the stars and the military news paper in Europe hed like to talk to you Lor a few minutes if you dont the gracious 95yearold who wrote in just wild about Harry in conjunction with Noble sissle for the All Black Broadway revue shuffle along in 1921 and which years later became the Campaign song for Harry s Truman greeted me As if we were lifelong before i got a word he these boys Are play ing and doing it As Well As we did it 50 years r Doest matter what color they Are the barrelhouse group Are All White there doing it the same Way we did it Back with startling acuity he answered ail my questions and acquiesced to my taking some shots of even with Flash popping in his the first question was the obvious one How much longer Are you going to keep going As Long As the fingers hold out ill keep i cant do everything i want to do anymore on the key but As Long As i can make people feel Goodie keep he suffers from How often do you Eubie i thought to myself later than i had one hell of a nerve calling this extremely courteous Nona Genaria by his first the wife has a Rule if i work she wont let me work tomorrow does this mean that you work half the year maybe about four months out of the All the while fans kept coming to the table with pro Grams and pictures asking for us and to each one he patiently asked How to spell their names so he could write a personal not merely scribbling his then it was rubies turn at the in going to play four hits from shuffle which i wrote in conjunction with Noble sissle  dare take the credit without giving credit where credits and before rambled on before Jack John Ion we used to get 48 weeks a year on the Keith circuit a vaudeville Era booking you americans in the audience know what in talking about first Black heavyweight boxing Champion of the was a notorious White Womanizer but after Jack John Blake at 95 As Long As the fingers hold ill keep Weisel son we were Lucky to get 20 weeks work per year on the Keith theres nothing exciting in this which i wrote in collaboration with Noble sissle but these were hits from our scuffle along which ran for 18 months on he then albeit love will find a after announcing he would play a George Gershwin rhapsody in Blue and the Man i he started on the main theme of rhapsody and stopped and that what you think you want to hear when i announce rhapsody in Blue but this is my favorite part of the number and then went into the clarinet stopping briefly after several bars to two wrong notes and after a few More proudly declaring to the enraptured so a right notes that Leonard in his Book the pleasures of Jaa quotes Blake one leg Willie a Boston conservatory trained i in the Only negro to graduate his class and wed go to somebody House to and hed Start something classical and they come an play something he got disgusted and changed from classics to in those Days negro musicians we rent even supposed to read we had to pretend we  read then they Marvel at the Way we could play thinking wed Learned the parts by the Only arrangement i Ever copied from anybody was one leg willies stars and stripes he did it in March ragtime and which was later known As he played it at contests in tammany Hall and the old Madison Square then brought Down the House with it at a huge Competition organized by the police the Millers Vale by Dan Synovec Bremerhaven Bureau chief our museum is a peek into the showing visitors How germans lived in lower Saxony from the 16th to Early 19th said her Mann Vic president of the Clopper the is an open air museum depicting Rural culture and history of lower Saxony the largest my oldest of its kind in some 80 buildings Homes of a a Church and an inn dating from the 16th to 19th Century have been reconstructed Here according to their original a a of visitors can browse through the old Miff Muff structures and see original furniture and tools from the More than people a year visit our Kaiser the intention of the museum is not Only to represent the most important types of houses that were built in lower Saxony and show their historical design but also to show As completely As possible All different branches of we have reconstructed various Mills Jand and animal driven Mills that were found in Awer they All Are in workable there you can Call our open air museum the greatest museum of Mills in restored hand Mill at Kloppenburg Kloppenburg is a few Miles Southwest of Bremen on Highway 213 off the Osnabrock autobahn about a one hour drive from the museum is open every 8 admission is Marks about for Mark about 75t for children six to and 50 pfennings about 25t for children under six years of Eubie brought the House Down at the Hague but Hes contributed so Many building blocks to this race we Call human that there want an unhappy person that we could All age so gracefully jazz dates under Palms promoter Werner Wunderlich called to Tell about upcoming events scheduled for Frankfurt Palmen Garter summer jazz concert july 27 will see German bassist Gunter Lenz current springtime playing a 7 con included in the group Are americans Alto sax player Frank Peter and pianist Bob hungarian Tenor sexist Leszek and germans Johannes Faber Trum Len Bass and Joe the August 10 program has a ibis Tom Van Der Geld with his modern jazz children at set for the and August 24 brings the Elvin Jones jazz machine with award winning German trombonist Albert Mangels Dorff the machine will have Eddie Gomez on Bass and former buddy Rich Star ten Orist Pat Labarbera among the movable concerts Are held on the outdoor stage except during inclement weather when the action is moved into the at two Marks a copy about you cant go ii you know about a jazz happening in Europe Festi jazz concert tour or other news of the Art share it with other readers by dropping a line to entertainment stars it Apo civilian address Postrach 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