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Farewell Friend. Roly Veitch Pays Tribute to Clem Avery.
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9 comments :
You've put in words, Roly, what I know a lot of people feel.
This is Kate (Clems Grandaughter). I just wanted to say thanks so much for being so kind and saying such nice things about my Grandpa, it really means alot.
Kate
xxxx
I no longer live in the UK and was very saddened to receive a call from my Mum with the sad news about Clem.
I very much enjoyed the Thursday night jazz sessions at the Black Bull and Clem must have enjoyed the pub too as he came to treat it as his local, well respected by all. We got to know his family too.
Thanks Roly for saying what we all feel.
Pauline
ex landlady of the Black Bull
Clem was a very nice guy, and played a fine trumpet lead. Don't really need much more for an epitaph......
Clem was truly one of the few "gentlemen "of jazz. I knew him from the late 50's and worked with him in various outfits on many occasions over the last 50 years or so, both on trumpet & latterly on bass.The Sunday morning sessions at the City Vaults with the Ronnie Young band were the stuff of legends- the mix of musicians was extremely eclectic, including Charlie Carmichael & Eric Gamblin, both also sadly deceased. Although Clem's real love was "purist" N.O jazz( he was extremely knowledgeable on the subject),he could hold his own on bass, playing in dixieland,mainstream & bebop without a problem.
He was a staunch defender of the banjo in jazz, much to my dismay, although I once recall him having to concede defeat to the arguement
when the late Ronnie McLean suggested to him that perhaps the banjo was not the most accommmodating instrument on which to play that most beautiful of ballads,"LAURA"
He was a very sound musician with a good "ear", a fine sense of humour & in all the years that I knew him, I never ever saw him lose his cool or say a wrong word about anyone.
He was one of the nicest guys to be around & will be greatly missed
by all who had the pleasure of knowing him.
Bill & Anne Harper
Hi Lance,
Yes Roly mailed us a while ago and we were waiting sadly for the announcement.
Many happy nights at the Black Bull with Clem manfully getting his head around my arrangements.
Bill has blogged on your Bebop site but I wanted to add my own thoughts--Clem was a really decent and lovely man and took the trouble to give us a copy of ,of all things, a tape by none other than........Frank Crummit--he of the Prune song. His interests were truly eclectic and he will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with his family.
Kind Regards
Anne De Vere
Attended Clems humanist funeral on Friday. Almost every north east jazz musician was there to play their respects to one of our all time greats. Every spectrum of musician was their from Mighty Joe Young to Clive Grey, Jim Birkett through to Mike Durham - to name but a few. Roly gave a heart felt eulogy about Clems music.
A humanist family friend also spoke about Clem. He spoke about his interests in life and memories started to flow back for me. I knew I had something in common with Clem - we both had the same style car when we started motoring, a Vauxhall Viva. He kept his going for 30 or more years. A sign of the man - he had great stamina
Friends in jazz
John
So sorry to hear the news of the death of Clem Avery. As you know Lance, Clem did go back along way, when my father Hughie Aitchison and he used to play on the Tyneside Jazz scene in the 1950's, and of course those great years when I was a boy taken by my dad to forth banks New Orleans Jazz Club in the 1960's, to hear and meet all of these great characters on the jazz scene at that time. I myself did go through a music course with Clem at The College of Arts And Technology in Newcastle in the early 1970's. He was always a warm and gentle man, and a very knowledgeable musician. It was just a couple of years ago that I took my wife, Jeannie, over to see and meet him playing with the Rae Brothers, and after all the years since I had last seen him he was still the same warm and talkative Clem. I'm sure he will be very much missed on the local jazz scene, many thanks Lance for keeping me up to date...
Sincerely
Colin Atchison
Hong Kong
a lovely lovely man,many,many happy memories of gigs and social times,
bill and enid walton
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