question - 2008 National in Chicago

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Posted By: Rob

Anyone know who is signing autographs and which days? What rules are there on signing cards?

thanks,
Rob

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Posted By: Mike

http://www.nsccshow.com/show_details.shtml

That's all we know at this point. They won't announce the autograph guest list until at least May.

Just take your cards, pay your money, and they'll sign it. No restrictions that I know of.

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Posted By: Phil Garry

Anybody know the name of the hotel located across the street from the Donald Stephens Convention Center?

Thanks

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Posted By: Jim VB

Phil,

I believe it's this one.

http://www.ohare.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp

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Posted By: stefan

There is a embassy suites too.
they have free drinks from 4-7pm every day.

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Posted By: scott brockelman

Embassy, Sofitel, Hyatt and a couple others I can't recall, all withing walking distance and all have shuttle service to O'hare

Scott

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Posted By: Alan

Which one is the National's host hotel ?

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Posted By: leon

I will be calling the hotels soon to set up the 6th Annual Net54 Dinner at one of them. You might wait until then to make a reservation. It's sure nice to have a few cocktails and then be able to crawl upstairs to your room without leaving the building. It worked very well last year...Hopefully this year we will exceed the 125 friends from last year that attended. ALL Net54 board members are invited. I have no specifics yet nor am I absolutely positive I can get a conference room at one of the hotels...but that will be the plan.........best regards

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Posted By: Rich Klein

Regards

Rich

Of course, I'll have to make plane and hotel reservations at some pt

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Posted By: Phil Garry

As always, thanks for the info, guys!

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Posted By: DMcD

In case anybody is hoping to catch a ballgame, I just checked the MLB website for Cubs and White Sox schedules around the time of the National (July30-Aug 3) and ascertained the following: Cubs begin a homestand on Friday August 1. White Sox begin a homestand on Tuesday August 5. Cubs play Pirates Fri Aug 1 2:20pm, Sat Aug 2 TBA, Sun Aug 3 2:20pm, Houston Mon Aug 4 8:05pm, Tues Aug 5 2:20pm, Weds Aug 6 2:20pm, then 3 games vs St Louis. White Sox play Tigers Tues Aug 5 TBA, Weds Aug 6 TBA, Thurs Aug 7 TBA, then 4 vs Boston and three vs KC. On an o/t note, just an inch away on the map in Davenport, Iowa on the weekend preceding (July 24-27) will be the 35th Annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival http://www.bixsociety.org/ . My great, white hope is to get to Davenport, the National and to take in a game at Wrigley. Then I can die a happy man (and you guys can fight over my cards).

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Posted By: barrysloate

Bix died in 1931. It's nice that people still remember his music.

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Posted By: Sean BH

I thought the party was a Steve Murray's house and we were camping in his backyard?

I'm home brewing a special National Night at Steve's beer for the party!

sdbh

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

I'm a big Hoagy Carmichael fan. I'm sure they'll be playing his music there too. Hoagy named one of his sons after his friend Beiderbecke. I have a couple of great Carmichael-signed pieces, but would love anything signed by Bix. Good luck there!

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I'm a fan of his, too.....one of my all-time favorites is his song....Stardust.

Have you been to Bloomington, Indiana where he was born ?

TED Z

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

I really love his 1933 instrumental recording of "Stardust" (Artie Shaw's more famous recording is also awesome). Another instrumental, "Cosmics" was years ahead of its time, and a personal favorite. I also love "Lazybones", "Rockin' Chair", etc.

No, I've only passed through his hometown, never looked around.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Jodi- ever hear Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden do Rockin' Chair?

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Yeah, I've heard it years ago on a CD that was supposed to just be Hoagy. Perhaps he was playing the piano on the track, I'm not sure. Boy, this thread sure got hijacked!!!

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Posted By: barrysloate

Teagarden played trombone and was a dear friend of Louis's. You can see the mutual love and admiration they had for each other on that song...yes, it did get hijacked.

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Posted By: DMcD

Guess this is gonna be my o/t mulligan. Maybe we can get Leon to create a Pre-War Jazz section up there next to the Memorabilia Forum. I'd be in there like a dirty shirt.

Hoagy Carmichael was ultra-cool. You can see for yourself in the great The Best Years of Our Lives . I always liked Nat King Cole's Stardust best, that is until I heard Louis Armstrong do it. You can hear it at the Red Hot Jazz Archive (need Real Player, scroll down 'til you hit Stardust http://www.redhotjazz.com/lao . You jazz guys will love this site. Lots of bios, discographies and tunes you can play on demand by everyone from Jelly Roll to Django. Here's Hoagy's main page:
http://www.redhotjazz.com/ . Georgia on My Mind is a great tune, too. Just ask the University of Hawaii football team. And Jack Teagarden, don't get me started! Stars Fell on Alabama, the man could sing.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/teao


Edited to fix spazzed out html.

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Posted By: Alan

I plan on going to a (rock n roll) concert while I'm in Chicago !!! Anyone joining me ?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

In the 1950's and early '60s....the JAZZ scene in NYC around Times Square was where it "was happening". Jack Teagarden
owned the Metropole and two blocks away was the famous haunt....BIRDLAND.

As college kids, we used to frequent these two places. I saw Teagarden, Gerry Mulligan, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie,
George Shearing and an unforgetable performance by Gene Krupa.

I wish I had a "Time Machine" to bring back those great moments.

TED Z

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Posted By: DMcD

"I wish I had a "Time Machine" to bring back those great moments."
Yeah, me, too. But at least we've got the internet and CD's and Turner Classic Movies and it will have to do. Though I'm old enough to remember watching Stengel's Yankees, you've got about 10 years on me, Ted, and, as precious as the reminiscences of those days are to me, I admit some envy that you hold in your skull first-person memories of the Yanks of slightly-more-ancient yore, Dimaggio, Reynolds, Joe Page (Wikipedia said his nickname was "The Gay Reliever" - say it ain't so, Joe ), King Kong Keller and young sailor Berra, not to mention lords of jazz, Ellington, Teagarden, Krupa. Some envy? I'd trade body parts to have watched Duke Ellington lead his band! If you could just get over this "Republican" thing, Louie, this might be the start of a beautiful friendship. (That's a joke, son).

All you young rock-n-roll whippersnaps, look away. Go on about your business. There's nothing here for you to see. Following is a link to one of my favorite jazz tunes, an undeservedly-obscure killer titled "Hello, Lola" by Red McKenzie and His Mound City Blue Blowers, recorded November 14, 1929. The Foxxgrove A's had just demolished the American League, second place New York 18 games out (!) and dispatched the Cubs in five games. The stock market is self-destructing, women and children hollering. This is what all that commotion sounded like. Red McKenzie on tissue and comb, Pee Wee Russell on clarinet, Glenn Miller (yes, that Glenn Miller) on trombone, boy-wonder Coleman Hawkins, 24 years old, on an awesome tenor sax tear, and your Mr. Krupa holding it all together with dynamite. A veritable musical Murderer's Row, Rock'n'Roll on hypersteroids. http://www.redhotjazz.com/mound Enough of my BS. Enjoy.

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Posted By: Anthony S.

Hoagy also has a cool scene (and plays a great song) in "To Have and Have Not." If memory serves, a 19 year old Lauren Bacall does a sexy little walk to the beat of the music as she enters the bar.

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Posted By: DMcD

Lauren Bacall, nineteen years old. Five little words and I'm gonna have a heart attack. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow." Her first movie and a great one. Been a while since I've seen it but I seem to recall Hoagy C. (as Cricket) pounding out some barrelhouse piano along with a marimba steel band as the credits closed. Too cool!

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

That was Bogey and Bacall's first movie together. They met on the set. The rest is Hollywood history. In fact, Bogart was buried with a silver whistle around his neck with that very line inscribed in its surface!

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

And, then there was Key Largo with Bogey and Bacall and Edward G Robinson and Lionel Barrymore.....
but, no Hoagy in this one.

TED Z

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Posted By: Rich Klein

The West End was one of the best jazz clubs in town. Max Roach seemed to be there every week.

In addition, my own tastes in music of the 30's runs more toward the Coleman Hawkins type of jazz

Regards
Rich