"Hindustan" Jacques Gauthe; Leigh Smith; H5JM

If you enjoyed our earlier "youtube" clip of this band playing "Oh Baby" you may like this track too. The late and much loved Jacques Gauthe is on clarinet. The scene is "C'est what?", Saturday matinee home of the HOT FIVE JAZZMAKERS for the past 19 years. This clip is from June 11 1994. Jacques is on his first visit to Toronto, as the guest star, brought in by the Classic Jazz Society of Toronto and here he is having a pre-concert warm-up with Hot Five Jazzmakers. Janet Shaw - the regular reed player has moved over to piano for this number, joining the regular stalwarts Colin Bray (string bass) and Rainer Hunck (banjo)who both well understand how to lay down a New Orleans style beat. Also guesting with the band on cornet & trumpet is Leigh Smith, resident in Ottawa for many years but now living in British Columbia. He has the lead and the vocal on this tune and does a fine job too. He is a great man with the mutes! Brian Towers (trombone/leader) completes the line-up. Jacques Gauthe will be sadly missed, both in his native France and in New Orleans, where he has played for many years. We shall sorely miss him in Fritzel's bar on Bourbon, where he had become an institution.