Photo Album of Tinnitus Talk Members

It's a rainy night tonight. Typing this outside a McDonald's waiting for my ride.

 

This was my first time in Jamaica, I went to attend a Friend’s wedding. It was beautiful, we were about 30 km outside of Montego Bay.
Yes, the pic with my dog was taken only a few days ago... the snow here is finally starting to melt today. There is a freshness that winter brings, but I am ready for spring!

 

I notice you are from New York, hope all is well. So sad what is happening with COVID in your state.

 

Yes, how I am typically seen in my home country... bundled!

Jazzer, you are from the UK and a musician, how is it that the UK produces such fine musicians?

 

Well as I am sure you know, jazz started in New Orleans, and developed its ‘mainstream’ in tandem with the career of the genius of Louis Armstrong.
After some years of partial neglect it re-emerged on the West Coast in the San Francisco area in the form of a traditional (early style) jazz revival.
This was led by a dance band trumpet player called Lou Watters who, obsessed with the jazz of the early negro players, formed a band to revive this early jazz style.
By 1945/6 this traditional jazz revival caught on over here, and the British ‘Trad’ Jazz scene flourished from about 1950 until about 1980.
The remnants of this movement still exist today, played in local jazz clubs throughout the country.
I joined up in 1962 and played professionally for over 50 years, until Tinnitus cut me down.
Recordings, International Jazz Festivals, Cruise ships, etc....
I played the Sacramento Festival for two weeks in about 1993.
Our traditional jazz scene spawned many great jazz musicians.
Jazz would never have achieved its incredible vibrant world wide appeal without the remarkable musical talents, vocalising, personality etc....of the incredible Louis Armstrong - who is still the greatest jazz trumpet that ever drew breath.

Please excuse the length of this post AB,
perhaps you can understand my passion.
If a story is worth telling then I have to do it justice.
Dave x
Jazzer

 

Kim at the Honda dealer. It's hard to detect that new car smell under a face mask!

 

OMG Your son looks just like one of my nephews.

 

Beautiful lady and
lovely little nipper
xx

 

This is what lockdown causes, fresh paint.

 

As there’s a hiatus in members coming forward to show their magnificent faces just now, I’ll just post this photo to wile away the time.
It isn’t me - I have been known to have a shave every now and then - but it is a lovely photo of a kind man loving a beautiful pussycat.
I love pictures of ‘Love.’
Maybe I’m just a ‘wuss.’

 

Been letting my beard grow while locked down. Should I go back humpty dumpty style or keep growing it?

 

@El BUZZ
I personally like it.

 

I would ask the ladies Buzz - but this illustrious thread has so few visitors, it could be some time...x

 

Banksy

 

Genius !!

 

Hey everyone, I've enjoyed scrolling through some nice pics on this thread. Anyway, I'm almost a month active on this site, so I thought it would be a nice way to introduce myself by uploading a personal pic. Greetings from the Netherlands!

 

Hiya Christian
Nice to (sort of) meet you.
My missus comes from Rotterdam.
Under normal conditions we revisit Holland 3 or 4 times a year - normally in the Amersfoort area.
We live in London UK.
Dave x
Jazzer

 

Hi there @Jazzer , likewise! And how are you by the way? I have been to London before (been to places such as Peckham). It was an incredible experience. I actually live in a city nearby Rotterdam: The Hague. Amersfoort is such a nice place, I've been told. They have a big historical city centre, if I'm not mistaken. Are you planning on visiting the Netherlands in the nearby future?

 

Thanks for coming back.
I am well - apart from coping with ‘T.’
Yes - as soon as the situation comes back to somewhere near normal we will go through the tunnel and drive up to Amersfoort again.
Sylvie is a proper Dutch girl even now, and even though her family emigrated to Vancouver when she was 13, in 1958.
She never lived back in Holland again, but we visit every chance we get.
Back in the 1990s, when I was very busy jazzing, we appeared at most of the Dutch jazz festivals:
Breda, Eindhoven, Apeldoorn, Gorinchem, so many that I can’t now remember.

She really misses Nederland's culture, her extended family, the people, the food, so much.

 

Yes, I know what you mean about that nasty bugger called ''T''. I'm trying to cope as well at the moment .

Sylvie sounds like a nice name. Given that you're almost for many years to your Dutch beauty, I assume you speak a word or two Dutch haha?

Have you also performed at the North Sea jazz festival by any chance? I love jazz tbh, but specifically the modern genre called ''electric swing', such as these two (and I believe it's also ment for cat fanatics like you)

Parov Stelar - Catgroove (Official Audio)

&

Caravan Palace - Lone Digger

 

Well I’m afraid I will have to disappoint you on a couple of fronts here Christian.
Everything I have achieved in life has been done by instinct.
Music - jazz - came easy to me.
I have never had even one trombone lesson in my life, unlike today’s players who are mostly college educated, yet I have played on many great stages - the London Palladium, the Montreaux jazz festival, the QE 2, so many more - I understood how ‘music’ worked.
Don’t get me wrong - I worked at myself, practiced hard daily, and got where I wanted to be.
But I had something called - aptitude.

I simply do not have the memory required to absorb a foreign vocabulary - so I have NO Dutch.

With regard to taste in jazz - we would be streets apart if I’m honest.
Everything I love grows out of the fantastic inspiration of the ‘GOD’ of jazz:
Louis Armstrong.
What the Dutch refer to as
‘Oud Jazz.’

 

Understandable I don't think a lot of people are into a niche like electro swing. More so because I don't think it is marketed that well haha.

''Oud jazz'' certainly is a great genre. I am also the proud owner of a couple of records, ranging from Miles Davis to Joao Gilberto. Whenever I try to relax, I play a song of one of the jazz greats on my vinyl player.

I think that it certainly proofs that you're talented to learn it a vocational way. It seems harder to learn it by practice, but that makes it all the more impressive

 

I found a photo that shows the effect that lockdown is having on people.

Heeeeeeeere’s @Jazzer



(Sorry buddy)

 

“Hahahaaaa.........xx
Brilliantly executed buddy.
(ie - you swine)

I truly miss muso’s sense of humour now that I’m no longer a working muso.
But you’re here to remind me bud xx”

Best wishes Ed

Dave x

 

I can't wait for the sequel, Doctor Ring.

(Also I'm hijacking this thread to remind you all that Doctor Sleep was a superb film that unfairly bombed at the box office.)

 

Cool stuff hope you all doing well.

 

Not many photos...Time for another joke, then.

What is Dracula’s favorite fruit? Neck-tarines.

 

Nice metaphor @HeavyMantra . There's always light at the end of the tunnel. Where in Sweden was the photo taken?