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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Rob
Anyone know who is signing autographs and which days? What rules are there on signing cards? |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Mike
http://www.nsccshow.com/show_details.shtml |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Phil Garry
Anybody know the name of the hotel located across the street from the Donald Stephens Convention Center? |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Jim VB
Phil, |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: stefan
There is a embassy suites too. |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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 |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Alan
Which one is the National's host hotel ? |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Rich Klein
Regards |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Phil Garry
As always, thanks for the info, guys! |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: barrysloate
Bix died in 1931. It's nice that people still remember his music. |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Sean BH
I thought the party was a Steve Murray's house and we were camping in his backyard? |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I'm a fan of his, too.....one of my all-time favorites is his song....Stardust. |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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. |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: barrysloate
Jodi- ever hear Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden do Rockin' Chair? |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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. |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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 |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: DMcD
"I wish I had a "Time Machine" to bring back those great moments." |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
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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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
And, then there was Key Largo with Bogey and Bacall and Edward G Robinson and Lionel Barrymore..... |
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question - 2008 National in Chicago
Posted By: Rich Klein
The West End was one of the best jazz clubs in town. Max Roach seemed to be there every week. |
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