[Tradjazz] Just found

[Jerry Gordon]

John, 

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Jerry Gordon, Troy, NY - Webmaster for
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On Mon, 7 May 2007 16:13:57 -0500 "johnlauer" <johnlauer at mindspring.com>
writes:
> Just found you guys today.  Wondered if there was anyone doing 
> Dixieland (Traditional jazz) on the Internet.  My name is John Lauer 
> and I have a Dixieland Jazz Band in Atlanta called the Roswell Dixie 
> Kings.  However, my background goes all the way back to 1953 when I 
> did a half hour Dixieland Show on Radio KEAR aboard the USS 
> Kearsarge.  I was in a 17 piece U.S. Navy band after coming out of 
> the Navy school of Music.  The Admiral aboard the ship didn't like 
> the way the radio station sounded so he came to the guys in the band 
> and asked us to take over the station.  Bunch of guys got 
> transferred, I ended up running the station, went to Syracuse 
> University and I've been in the radio business ever since.  A couple 
> years ago I resurrected the Dixieland Show as an hour on Sunday 
> afternoons on WMLB here in Atlanta....show has always been called 
> Strictly From Dixie, which is probably politically incorrect, but 
> that never bothered me.   I have an excellent Dixieland collection, 
> and most of what you are playing I have...all the Turk Murphy, the 
> Firehouse Five, most of Louis, all of Pete Fountain, all of Al Hirt. 
>  Back in the 50's the carrier was stationed in San Francisco while 
> we were in dry dock, and we regularly went to Earthquake McGoon's to 
> listen to Turk Murphy's Jazz Band.  When I got to Syracuse I played 
> a couple of gigs with the Salt City Six, made up of guys from 
> Syracuse University (except for trombone player Will Alger who was a 
> townie), the most notable of which was Jack Maheu who went from 
> there to the Dukes of Dixieland.  Our band plays 3 or 4 times a 
> month here in Atlanta for churches, retirement homes and other 
> places that still love our kind of music.  I play sax, clarinet, and 
> string bass in the Roswell New Horizons bands...a 75 piece concert 
> band, a 17 piece jazz band, the Dixieland Band, and a sax quartet. 
> Just heard a classical piece (Rachmaninoff).  One of the greatest I 
> ever heard was the Salt City Six rendition of the William Tell 
> Overture on their one and only album called the Salt City Six visit 
> the classics.