Anne of Green Gables 1919 excerpt from re creation by Jack Hutton and Linda Hutton Jack Hutton 2024-10-22 | Anne of Green Gables 1919 excerpt from re creation by Jack Hutton and Linda Hutton
CHOPIN WITH A GERSHWIN ENDING jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2020-04-19 | EXPLAINING WHY I HAVE A GERSHWIN STYLE ENDING FOR PRELUDE NO. 4 IN E MINOR -- Jack HuttonI am hoping that the many followers of Chopin's music will forgive me for slightly amending one of Chopin's most-loved preludes in a videotaping that I am just now uploading to my Youtube site. I am referring to Prelude No. 4 in E minor.I spent literally months listening to every version I could find through the Web, including Jimmy Page's performance of the prelude in the 1970's. Jimmy Page bypassed the ending which a contemporary of Chopin's (von Bulow) called "Suffocation" and I decided to do the same at a time when our world is looking for messages of hope.That explains why I chose to highlight the "blue note" (C7) that occurs in the fifth last bar. In that one bar Chopin was a century ahead of "Rhapsody in Blue" and that is the direction that I went for the remainder of the prelude. My version ends with the E minor chord but the chords leading up to it come from George Gershwin's world. The modest few who listen to my version will hear a message of hope that hints at better times to come. I think that is what we need to hear at this time and I apologize to Chopin purists for amending the final bars. I just went through roughly three weeks of self-isolation in my cottage cabin at Bala, Muskoka, (18 days and 17 nights), alone with my Bible and laptop, and have some idea of what it is like to look for hope in our current situation. It was during that time that I conceived the idea of the videotaping and to make it a message of hope.I am probably best known as a ragtime performer in both Canada and at least two American ragtime festivals, but I have also recorded two gospel CD's.
THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE CD AND BOOK Jack Hutton 2020-02-27 | Jack Hutton has just done a small re-run of a 1999 CD that pays tribute to a Canadian tune, The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise, and its two composers, Ernest Seitz and Gene Lockhart. This brief video clip offers viewers a chance to buy the CD and an accompanying book which tells the story behind the tune. Jack can be reached for more details at balamus@muskoka.com
Brian Bauer plays Saxophobia August 17, 2019 at Gravenhurst Jack Hutton 2019-08-19 | The Jack Hutton and Friends concert was billed as a Farewell performance but instead turned out to be a joyous occasion that attracted a packed audience (just short of a sell-out) and ended with a lengthy standing ovation. Jack announced at the end that he now fully intends to be back at the historic Opera House. That got great applause and shouts of "Stay, stay!"
kai plays down by riverside with Regent Park band 111 Jack Hutton 2019-06-07 | For the second year in a row, 11-year-old Kai Hutton Wakely played a concert at Toronto's Tranzak Club to raise money for free music lessons at the Regent Park School of Music. He and his mother, Sue Hutton, have raised thousands of dollars so far for young people at Regent Park and elsewhere. Here is Kai playing "Down By The Riverside" on Sunday, June 2nd with the Regent Park School of Music Wind Band. His concert ranged from Queen Rock Band classics to Dave Brubeck and Mozarts's "Turkish March". Time ran out before he played "Maple Leaf Rag". It was truly a virtuoso performance! Videotaping was done by a proud grandfather, Jack Hutton, who played more than 30 years ago at the Tranzak Club with the Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra.
TEARING DOWN BALAS FIRST ICE CREAM PARLOUR jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2018-06-21 | One of the oldest buildings in all Bala was torn down in the short space of a noon hour on Wednesday, June 20th. Few in the town knew that it was very likely Bala's first ice cream parlour, an eyesore next to the LCBO for at least the last decade. William Carr, an early Bala resident, later built Carr's Ice Cream Parlour on the church side of the Bala North Falls. Another piece of Bala history is now gone.
just as I am jack hutton movie Jack Hutton 2018-02-09 | Mr. Rogers and I Like You Just The Way You Are for church Powerpoint February 18, 2017
JACK HUTTON AND FRIENDS Happy Birthday Canada 2017 jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2017-09-11 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA -- when is the last time that an audience at the Gravenhurst Opera House sang the theme for the Happy Gang? It happened Saturday night, September 2nd, when Jack Hutton and Friends played an entire evening of forgotten Canadian songs to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Canada. The program ranged all the way from When You And I Were Young, Maggie (1866) to Moe Koffman's Swingin' Shepherd Blues and Bobby Gimby's CA-NA-DA which became the toe-tapping anthem for Canada's 100th birthday in 1967. It was a night of miracles because the musicians (Brian Bauer on clarinet, soprano sax and tenor tax, Bob Livingston, trombone, Will Wilson, guitar and banjo, Ric Giorgi, string bass, and Jack Hutton, piano) were playing many tunes for the very first time with the briefest of rehearsals. But it all came together, thanks to an audience that started applauding before they had played a note.
a magic Segwun cruise with Stan and Conchita Meek jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2017-08-28 | The 130-year-old RMS Segwun helped to celebrate the 80th birthday of Stanley Meek on August 23, 2017 with a 3 1/2 hour evening cruise and music provided by Jack Hutton's All-Stars. Jon Seiger, regarded by many as the world's finest Louis Armstrong performer (both on trumpet and vocals) drove from Rochester. Brian Bauer, a virtuoso on clarinet and every saxophone known to man, came from Buffalo;. Tony Quarrington, one of Toronto's finest guitar players for decades, came up from the city. Jack Hutton, who organized the group, came with his piano from Bala. Stan and his wife Conchita hosted the evening cruise with approximately 25 friends. The video has musical highlights with Bourbon Street Parade, Blueberry Hill and a fine singer, Beverly, joining in with Willie Nelson's "Crazy".
HONEYSUCKLE ROSE Alexandria Bay, N Y , 2016 Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2016-06-05 | HONEYSUCKLE ROSE was a natural choice when Neville Dickie and Jack Hutton played a one-hour set of Fats Waller tunes at the Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival at Alexandria Bay, N.Y. on Saturday, May 28, 2016. Jack played the first chorus the way Waller did in a laid-back 1943 recording. Neville jumped in for the second chorus with up-tempo Bob Zurke improvisations, followed by a bagpipes riff. No one looked more delighted by the instant lesson than Jack who played the bagpipes riff later on that same evening. Jack says he learns from Neville every time he sits down opposite the English stride legend. That's what makes the Alexandria Bay festival special year after year: musicians learning from other musicians.
HELIOTROPE BOUQUET played 2016 by Jack at Alexandria Bay,N Y Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2016-06-04 | This was the final Scott Joplin composition played by Jack on the last night of the Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival at Alexandria Bay, N.Y. (May 27-29, 2016). Jack devoted two half hours to early ragtime, concentrating on Joplin. Louis Chauvin, a ragtime genius who died in his mid-20's, composed the first two themes. Joplin added two of his own and created one of the most haunting ragtime compositions ever written. Jack's Arpin-like playing turns Heliotrope Bouquet into a prayer that features Chauvin's gossamer chords and Joplin's melodic directions. Next year (2017) will be the 100th anniversary of Joplin's death on April 1st, 1917.
A KISS TO BUILD A DREAM ON Alexandria Bay , N Y Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2016-06-01 | A KISS TO BUILD DREAM ON was one of the many highlights of the weekend Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival at Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Friday, May 27th, to Sunday afternoon, May 29, 2016. This was part of an hour-long set in which Jon Seiger, Neville Dickie and Jack Hutton paid tribute to the music of Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller (FATS MEETS LOUIS). The videotaping was done by Linda Jackson-Hutton
FATS MEETS LOUIS I Cant Give You Anything But Love Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2016-05-31 | FATS MEETS LOUIS was a three-piano tribute to the music of Thomas "Fats" Waller and Louis Armstrong on May 25, 2016, at the Gravenhurst Opera House with Neville Dickie, Jon Seiger and Jack Hutton. Jon also played trumpet and sang like Louis Armstrong. Their combination has never been duplicated anywhere else. The three musicians went from Gravenhurst to Alexandria Bay, N.Y., to headline the Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival and were a total success for that weekend event. Videotaping at both Gravenhurst and Alexandria Bay was done by Linda Jackson-Hutton. This videotape of I Can't Give You Anything But Love will be followed by further highlights from Gravenhurst and Alexandria Bay. What incredible music by three musicians who obviously love what they are playing! It doesn't get any better than this!
FATS MEETS LOUIS opening numbers at Gravenhurst Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2016-05-26 | FATS MEETS LOUIS was a celebration of the music of both Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller at the Gravenhurst Opera House on Wednesday, May 25th. It featured three pianos -- Neville Dickie, Jon Seiger and Jack Hutton. Jon also sang and played trumpet like Louis Armstrong. The three musicians did not have a rehearsal, but the evening was pure magic and received two lengthy standing ovations. Here is Jack Hutton introducing the historic concert, followed by the two opening numbers, SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH, Armstrong's signature tune, and UP A LAZY RIVER as Louis Armstrong sang and performed it.
PORT DOVER COMPOSITE SCHOOL recording for Drysdale Awards jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2016-04-07 | This is the music that played as four winners of the new Marion Drysdale Awards walked to the front of a giant ballroom in Toronto's Skyline Hotel on March 16th, 1987. It was the final day of the Annual Assembly of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers's Federation and the first time that OSSTF had ever honoured students at its Assembly. The song, VOICE OF PEACE, was composed by two students at Port Dover Composite School, Debby Field (words) and Heather Murray (music). Joy Kinsman, who taught the senior music class at Port Dover, brought her entire class to Toronto to record the song for the OSSTF meeting. I was in charge of the Drysdale Awards ceremony that day and I saw 500 OSSTF teachers
LITTLE COQUETTE jack hutton and friends at Gravenhurst Aug 18, 15 jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-12-26 | ...
Muskoka Advent Choir 2015 ALICIA Ali POWER solo Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-12-16 | This brief video clip is a Christmas memory that you will never forget :Alicia (Ali) Power is singing for the second year in a row with the Muskoka Advent Choir. This solo led off the second half of a Christmas cantata. I had the honour of videotaping Ali's solo on Friday, Dec. 11th, at the First Muskoka Congregational Church and I am one of her biggest fans.Notice that Ali has no music in front of her. That is because she does not read music in the normal way. She listens to music and sees the notes and the chords in her mind as a series of colours. When she starts to sing, she is off in a world of her own. Many predict that Ali Power will be a well-known performer across Canada in just a few years. I am one of them.JACK HUTTON, Bala
Muskoka Advent Choir WOW gospel quartet 2015 Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-12-13 | The Muskoka Advent Choir has been captivating pre-Christmas audiences for the last two decades with performances that often bring listeners to tears. The miracle is that most of the singers do not read music. They have only six rehearsals to master cantatas that would intimidate professionals.Here is a video of four members of this year's choir performing a Gaither classic, Mary Was The First, as a gospel quartet, backed up by the full choir. As the guy who did the videotaping, I will confess that I am one of the biggest fans of the Muskoka Advent Choir. I know many neighbours and friends who sing in the choir and most of them have no idea of how to read music. After only six rehearsals, they bring audiences tears with seven concerts across Muskoka, including one federal prison. Linda Ellison has done a wonderful job of stepping in as the new musical director and I applaud her. Enjoy -- and Merry Christmas!jack hutton
ANISA COWAN talks about filming Jack Hutton and Friends Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-09-16 | Anisa Cowan is a 20-year-old student in the film program at the University of Windsor. Almost at the last moment, she accepted the challenge of filming the July 18th Jack Hutton and Friends concert at the Gravenhurst Opera House. Jack Hutton's hope was that Anisa could provide some video clips for Youtube. She went far beyond that, with the help of her older brother, Keldon, who videotaped the 2-hour concert from the rear. Anisa did close-ups from the front and also on stage, which she wove into a mini-documentary. It took her almost two months but she has created an instant jazz film classic that will be around for a long time. She is exceptionally modest in this 2-minute conversation, but we will probably be hearing her name in the future. She is now in England for a year of exposure to what is happening over there, and will return for a final year at the U of Windsor. Remember the name of this gifted young woman from Gravenhurst!
BOO HOO Jack Hutton and Friends salute Carmen Lombardos top hit Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-09-16 | BOO HOO was Carmen Lombardo's biggest hit, which is why Jack Hutton and Friends decided to highlight it at their July 18th, 2015, concert at the Gravenhurst Opera House. Everyone in the band is featured up close by Anisa Cowan, a 20-year-old 3rd year film student at the University of Windsor. Anisa was asked to take some footage that could be shared on Youtube. With the help of her older brother, Keldon, Anisa created a 2-hour mini-documentary that will almost certainly be shared right across this continent. She took one of the finest nights heard for years at the Gravenhurst Opera House and turned into an instant jazz film classic.
LITTLE COQUETTE Jack Hutton and Friends at Gravenhurst july 18 2015 jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-09-14 | Description
I FOUND A NEW BABY Jack Hutton and Friends at Gravenhurst 07/18/15 Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-09-14 | Jack Hutton and Friends played July 18th, 2015, at the Gravenhurst Opera House to a near-capacity house. The musicians, Jack Hutton on piano, Ric Giorgi on upright bass, Will WIlson on guitar and banjo, Bob Livingston on trombone, and Brian Bauer on clarinet and saxes, have been playing for between 20 and 40 years. Few groups are better at bringing the music of the Jazz Age back to life. Their affection for that music shows in every note.
KAI WAKELY PLAYS GRAVENHURST OPERA HOUSE WITH GRANDPA Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2015-08-15 | Kai Wakely, 7, opened the second half of a Jack Hutton and Friends concert at the Gravenhurst Opera House with The Entertainers, followed by Will You Love When I'm 64? Listening with pride was Grandpa Jack Hutton. Also Kai's proud Mom, Sue Hutton, who was videotaping. Listen to the applause from an almost sold-out audience!
NEW Johns speech arrowsmith june 12, 2015 video jack hutton Jack Hutton 2015-06-13 | Two years ago John Jackson completed three years at Arrowsmith, a famous school in Toronto that dramatically improves the learning skills of its students. He was invited back on June 12 to an end-of-the-year celebration, but this time as a keynote speaker. His moving talk (5 minutes) urged students to DARE TO DREAM.
Alicia (Ali) Power sings with Muskoka Advent Choir 2014 jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-12-17 | Alicia (Ali) Power, 21, had never sung with a major choir before joining the Muskoka Advent Choir for their annual six concerts before Christmas. She was given a major soprano solo and amazed others with her pure voice and her ability to soar above the choir. Videography and written comments on the video are by Jack Hutton who has been a long-time admirer of Ali's God-given musical gifts. He plays piano at the First Muskoka Congregational Church where Ali first began singing as a young girl.
Alicia (Ali) Power sings with Muskoka Advent Choir jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-12-12 | Alicia (Ali) Power, 21, had never sung with a major choir before joining the Muskoka Advent Choir for their annual six concerts before Christmas. She was given a major soprano solo and amazed others with her pure voice and her ability to soar above the choir. Videography and written comments on the video are by Jack Hutton who has been a long-time admirer of Ali's God-given musical gifts. He plays piano at the First Muskoka Congregational Church where Ali first began singing as a young girl.
Trek to Bethlehem in Bala 2014 JOYOUS MUSIC jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-12-08 | The Trek to Bethlehem has been an annual Christmas gift from the Town of Bala ever since the first Trek in 1993. It starts off each year at the Bala Community Centre where families listen to Christmas music before joining a guided tour. Here are highlights the music they heard this year, starting with a gifted 21-year-old singer, Alicia Power. Nine hundred attended this year's Trek, which is very likely a record attendance..
jack plays Beethoven with 7-year-old grandson Kai! Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-12-03 | Daughter Sue Hutton and Kai hosted a wonderful pre-Christmas dinner for Linda and myself. The highlight came when we moved to a room with a digtal piano that I once played with the Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra. Kai and I had fun playing Beethoven's ODE TO JOY. Kai has an astonishing grasp of harmonics and a musical voice. For the record, I did not touch a keyboard before the age of 8. Way to go, Kai!
kai and grandpa play ODE TO JOY 222 jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-12-03 | Daughter Sue Hutton and grandson Kai invited us to a pre-Christmas dinner on November 28th. We moved to another room with a digital piano I once played with the Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra. Kai has an astonishing grasp of harmonics and the linear voice. Great fun! GRANDPA JACK
kai and grandpa play ODE TO JOY together! Jack Hutton 2014-12-03 | We had the most delightful early Christmas dinner in Toronto with daughter Sue Hutton and 7-year-old Kai as our hosts. The highlight was when we switched to another room with a Panasonic digital that I once played with the Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra. Kai, who only turned 7 weeks earlier, has an astonishing ear for harmonic lines and kept me on my toes with Beethoven's ODE TO JOY. For the record, I did not touch a piano keyboard until I was 8, a whole year older. GRANDPA JACK (Also let the record show that Grandma Linda proudly videotaped this historical collaboration)
kai and grandpa play ODE TO JOY together! jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-12-03 | Jack and Kai had never played together before!
Cran-Anne Look-Alike contest at Balas Museum, Oct. 18, 2014 Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-10-20 | 7-year-old Cadie Miller is the Cran-Anne Look-Alike winner for 2014 after charming everyone at Bala's Museum on Saturday, Oct. 18th, 2014. The contest is one of the highlights of each Bala Cranberry Festival
MY ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-08-30 | John Jackson issues Ice Bucket Challenge to friends
KIDS MAKE MOVIE AT MUSKOKA CHATAUQUA Jack Hutton 2014-08-23 | Nine creative children made their own silent movie on August 18th at a Muskoka Chatauqua children's workshop at Cleveland's House in Minett, Muskoka. Jack and Linda Hutton were the creative directors and organizers of this fun workshop with Jack playing piano and Linda doing everything. Tori Wines was the co-ordinator for Muskoka Chatauqua and Fiona Blair made it all possible. Gayle Dempsey, who founded Muskoka Chatauqua with her husband Gary was present to see Jack and Linda present their re-creation of the long-lost silent movie Anne of Green Gables (1919).
Perils of Pauline example for Chatauqua kidss worshop in Muskoka 2014 jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-08-17 | This was an edited and abbreviated version of a 1914 Perils of Pauline serial segment, shown for a kids's workshop at Cleveland's House in Minett, Muskoka, August 18th, 2014. Workshop leaders Jack and Linda Hutton. Great fun!
REMEMBERING RAGTIME BOB DARCH Jack Hutton 2014-08-05 | Jack was playing an evening dinner cruise when he realized that sitting next to him was Carole Cook, whose late father-in-law was Bob Cook, who opened a famous restaurant called Club 76 in Toronto in the early 1960s. It featured Ragtime Bob Darch on piano for years. The cruise quickly turned into a tribute to Darch's music and memory. Carole's cousin, Deirdre Malone, on board for her birthday, videotaped the evening. This is a small portion of what she videotaped.
Dwight Douglas tells how God brought his family to Canada from Jamaica Jack Hutton 2014-07-07 | Dwight Douglas, who came to Muskoka in the summer of 2008 as a migrant worker at the Red Leaves Marriott resort, attended the First Muskoka Congregational Church for the year and a half that he was at Red Leaves. He returned to that church on Sunday, June 29th, 2014, as the guest preacher. He was there, accompanied by his family, to share an incredible success story. He is now part owner of a franchise restaurant in Pickering after rising from a lonely job as the only server in a restaurant on Weston Road. After bringing his family to Toronto at the end of 2010 he was told over and over that they would never get landed immigrant status. They are now about to receive that. Dwight was telling his story in public for the first time, and he credits part of his success upon the prayers of the little Muskoka church.
JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE jack hutton jon seiger Alexandria Bay NY 2014 Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-06-10 | This was a highlight of the gospel prelude at the Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival at Alexandria Bay NY, May 23-25, 2014
I FOUND A NEW BABY Neville Dickie Jack Hutton Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-06-09 | This historic video comes from the Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival at Alexandria Bay, N.Y. May 2014
RIALTO RIPPLES as played by Jack Hutton at Alexandria Bay, N.Y. Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-05-27 | Jack Hutton was performing for the 22nd time at the Grand International Ragtime/Jaxxtime Festival at Alexandria Bay, N.Y.
NEVILLE DICKIE and JACK HUTTON play I Found A New Baby at Alexandria Bay, NY. Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-05-27 | JACK HUTTON's OBSERVATIONS AFTER THIS HISTORIC COLLABORATION AT ALEXANDRIA BAY, N.Y., May, 2014I'm not ashamed to say I'm prouder of this collaboration with Neville Dickie than anything I have ever played or recorded before. We were playing together at the Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival at Alexandria Bay, N.Y., May 23-25.We had never played together before, but we are both great fans of what Willie "the Lion" Smith and Don Ewell played in their classic 1960s duets, and especially their 1945 recording in Toronto. That's why I introduced "I Found A New Baby" with the same intro that the Lion used on the Toronto recording. Neville picked up on it immediately! What you are hearing here are tapings from two different sessions. The first was on Friday night, with me (Jack) on the left. The second, a much more relaxed but more upbeat version, was Saturday afternoon with our positions reversed. Our joyous antics deserve to be shared far and wide because echoes of both Willie and Don Ewell can be heard in what we play. Neville was gracious enough to step back when I attempted Don Ewell's semi-classical solo. The delightful thing about our weekend-long collaboration was that we never played anything the same way twice and that is true of these recordings!I will be forever grateful to Neville for a highlight of my entire life, and to Wayne and Nancy Paul for arranging it!! Jack Hutton, Bala, Muskoka, Ontario
STRIDE SUMMIT 2014 Neville Dickie Jon Seiger Jack Hutton Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-05-26 | Three piano fun at the Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival at Alexandria Bay, NY, May 24, 2014
POODLIN WITH PAT Neville Dickie and Jack Hutton Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-05-26 | Neville Dickie and Jack Hutton played Neville's tune at Grand International Ragtime/Jasstime Festival, May 23, 2014
NEVILLE DICKIE and JACK HUTTON play Wolverine Blues Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2014-05-26 | ragtime
my friend Wendell Jack Hutton 2014-04-07 | I spent three great days (April 1-3, 2014) with my long-time friend and colleague Wendell Fulton and his wife Pam at their 1893 Lakeville Corner home outside Fredericton, N.B. This tiny video captures only the highlights of an unforgettable visit with several long chats, a lobster feast and many memories.
MUSKOKA ADVENT CHOIR tells the Christmas story Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2013-12-05 | Muskoka Advent Choir performs at First Muskoka Congregational Church, Dec. 1 2013
Cran-Anne Look-Alike Contest at Bala Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2013-10-21 | A 13-year-old girl from Orillia wins!
STEALING APPLES Jack on the ivories with romping Waller classic jack hutton video Jack Hutton 2013-08-08 | Fats Waller's great tune, "Stealing Apples", was a highlight of Will and Pam Wilson's 40th wedding anniversary celebration at Niagara-on-the-lake on Saturday evening, June 27th. Will, who played with Jack for well over a decade in the Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra, led a quartet that included himself on guitar, Jack on piano, Brian Bauer on clarinet and saxes, plus Ed Brown on string bass. Fats would have enjoyed this joyful marriage of stride piano and solid rhythm. It's what he delighted in calling "effervescence".Jack was having so much fun that he carried on after Brian thought he had ended the tune. Fats would probably have gone for at least three more choruses. Maybe even to dawn!
NUAGES Will Wilson plays Djangos best known masterpiece at his own 40th wedding anniversary J Jack Hutton 2013-08-01 | What a great way to celebrate a 40th wedding anniversary! Will and Pam Wilson invited a select group friends and family to listen to a quartet (led by WIll on guitar) playing gems from the Golden Age of early jazz. Brian Bauer came from Buffalo with his clarinet and a car load of saxophones. Ed Brown brought his string bass and impressive bowing skills from Buffalo. Jack Hutton came from Bala, Muskoka, with his Kurzweil digital piano and 40 years of stride piano.It was Jack who asked near the evening's end that they play Django's best-known masterpiece, "Nuages" Jack and Ed concentrated on providing the familiar pulsating Django rhythm, leaning on those wonderful chords, while Brian and Will soloed.This all happened Saturday evening, July 27th, in the passenger lounge of the Muskoka District Airport which the Wilson's had rented for the occasion.
MIss Clementine and Stealing Apples Will and Pam Wilsons anniversary Jack Hutton video Jack Hutton 2013-07-31 | There were plenty of echoes of Bix and Fats at the 40th anniversary celebration for Will and Pam Wilson on July 27th, 2013, at Niagara-on-the-lake. That's because Will Wilson spent years playing music from the 20s and 30s with the Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra (he was the original leader) and he was leading a quartet that included Jack Hutton, the longtime RGJO pianist. Brian Bauer from Buffalo was present with his Jimmy Dorsey style clarinet and his assortment of saxophones. Ed Woods on string bass completed the quartet for the anniversary celebration. Unfortunately, Will Wilson is hidden from the view of the video camera, but his great playing stands out, and he does stand up to sing "Miss Clementine". This footage will be treasured by many despite the background conversations.
