Woody Allen Jazz Band • Miracles Dailies #1 • 1MEMO_20260918 • Miracles.Media • TakeNode a6190e49-8294-4830-861a-b0d86389c705 • The pivotal members of the Woody Allen New Orleans Jazz Band (right to left): the banjo player and bandleader Eddy Davis, pianist Conal Fowkes, Woody Allen playing the clarinet, trumpet player Simon Wettenhall , bass player Greg Cohen, trombonist Jerry Zigmont, and drummer John Gill, appear here in that live performance at the beautiful Bozar hall in Brussels, Belgium, 22 June 2019, following that memorable special guest performance with jazz pianist Simon Gronowski. dailies.news/2026/09/18/
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Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Skating Tour) Thursday 22 januari 1942 with extremely low temperatures, ranging from -33 Celcius at sunrise to -15 later that the day. Despite the German occupation, a record number of participants showed up at the start, 95% of whom managed to reach the finish. After the race, the Leeuwarden Diaconessen Hospital saw an influx of cold-related injuries. Many skaters suffered frostbite, including frostbitten eyes, ears, toes, hands, and even genitals. Some had to undergo amputations of their toes. Three tour riders later died in the hospital as a result of their frostbite injuries. (1). Nazi-approved dutch cinema news ‘Tobis Nieuws’.
Film source: Dutch newsreel by Polygoon (producer) in collaboration with the German Tobis Film for the Nazi controlled cinema news ‘Tobis Nieuws’ (Feb 1942). Courtesy of Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Open Images).
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‘Entartete Art’ 1935 – Coleman Hawkins & Leo de la Fuente in Holland
American saxophonist Coleman Hawkins announces and plays – accompanied by Leo de la Fuente on piano – on his tenor saxophone ‘I wished that I were twins’.
In 1934, Coleman Hawkins left the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and Amerika, moved to Europe, and joined the Jack Hylton Orchestra in England. Hylton and his band made regular ‘continental’ tours, and started another European tour January 1935 accompanied by Coleman Hawkins in Holland. At the end of January 1935 Hawkins joins the dutch band The Rambers … for 8 days … because Hawkins was denied entry to Germany because of his race, while Hylton and his band continued their tour without him and play for eight days at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.
To end this special week with Hawkins well, the bandleader of The Ramblers – Theo Uden Masman – arranged with Decca for recordings 4 february 1935 in Pulchri Studio in The Hague, Holland, including this : I wish I were twins…that was also recorded on film by Polygoon (Polygoontoon) for the dutch cinema news for next week .
Coleman Hawkins is accomponied here on film by the dutch jazz pioneer Leo de la Fuente on piano , playing ‘I wished that I were twins’ . After the recordings, Hawkins moves further into Europe.
Leo – Leonard Henriques – de la Fuente, who was born Jewish in Amsterdam 28 March 1902, was deported by the nazi’s to Auschwitz on 2 November 1942, and died 30 April 1944 ‘somewhere in Mid Europe’.
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