Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A pretty traditional Dixieland set up, with banjo/trumpet/clarinet on top of the rhythm section. Nice! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 1:30?AM Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > My co-worker of 11 years, Carolina, has a partner, Carlos Childe, who is a > professional jazz musician. He is passionate about traditional New Orleans > jazz, and he and Carolina have made several trips to New Orleans, > interviewing some of the greats for Carlos?s Youtube channel. One of those > greats is Will Smith <https://www.preservationhall.com/people/will-smith/>, > member of the Preservation Hall. Right now, Will Smith is in Spain, touring > together with Carlos. They have played all over the country, and on Friday > they performed in the municipality of San Juan de Alicante, a suburb next > to the one in which I live, in an outdoor venue just 3 km from my house. It > was a free concert, part of a jazz festival put on by the municipality. Of > course I went, and I must say that even though traditional N.O. jazz is not > my favourite jazz genre, I enjoyed it very much. Some of of my co-workers > also went?Carolina has many friends in the office?and all had a good time. > I took pictures, obviously, here are 37 of them: > > > https://www.greatpix.eu/Will-Smiths-New-Orleans-Jazz-Cats-Featuring-Carlos-Childe > > You may notice there were quite a few senior citizens in the audience. The > explanation is very simple: next to the square where the concert was held > there is a nursing home, and many of the residents were in attendance, > often accompanied by their middle-aged children. > > As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. I think it > is fairly obvious who Will Smith is; Carlos is the guy with the curly hair > and the banjo. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > @nwajsman.bsky.social > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information