#don roberts

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Space Age Fashion.

fashion model wearing a futuristic apron and silver boots, with a kitchen robot designed by Don Roberts, London UK, 4th December 1968. 💙

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Graeme Bell

There was a strong interest in Jazz in Australia in the twenties, however it pretty much consisted of visiting American bands. Sadly during this time Australia’s white Australia policy was in full swing, and in 1928, Sonny Clay's Colored Idea who were touring received shameful treatment, were hounded by the police and ejected from the country. That began a ban on black musicians touring this land that remained in effect until 1954, leaving Australia in a cultural backwater. 

This left a time lag in the styles that Australian bands were playing and so the ragtime and dixieland styles remained popular with Australian musicians well into the nineteen forties and fifties. One of the foremost of these was pioneering Australian jazzman Graeme Bell, who recorded an extensive series of hot jazz performances, particularly during 1947-1952. His Australian Jazz Band toured in Europe for a full year in `47 & `48, recording in Czechoslovakia, Paris, and London before returning home. Back home, Bell helped found the Swaggie label in 1949, and revisited Europe several times in the 1950s.

Bell was one of the father’s of Australian Jazz. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1978 for "valuable service to jazz music" and an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1990 for "service to music, particularly jazz". He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997 alongside The Bee Gees and Paul Kelly.

Notably in 1949, Bell managed to sneak Duke Ellington's cornetist, Rex Jackson, into the country by simply not disclosing that he was black on communications with the government and the musicians' union. Nonetheless, Jackson was forced to perform as a soloist, near the band, and not part of it. He had to stand at least 60 centremetres in front of the band!

Today’s track Fidgety Feet, is a dixieland standard that is attributed to Nick LaRocca and Larry Shields who recorded it in 1918, however George Gershwin's biographer Howard Pollack states that Gershwin once woke up at 3 am and penned the tune "Fidgety Feet".

On this recording, Graeme Bell (piano), Adrian "Lazy Ade" Monsbourgh (alto sax), Bud Baker (banjo), Don "Pixie" Roberts (clarinet), Jack Banston (drums), Johnny Rich (trombone), Lou Silbereisen (bass), Roger Bell (trumpet).

–Bozzie 🎷

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You need to watch the whole thing. The naked man running around he mentions is Chris-chan, btw

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