Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins; 511s; Jazz Juvenocracy, Fred Nagel, Sarasota Friendship Force, Adult Dodgeball League

This special presentation was produced in high definition by W. edu Tampa St. Petersburg Sarasota. Drawn up playing. Music. Playing grown up music. People who love people. Man who loves making models in this volume of a Gulf Coast Journal. Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. Dear Journal you know where you love music around here and we love people who play games and we love people with interesting hobbies. We love people and we got a lot of them on this volume so let's get started.

Busuk. You bet. Jazz. Our favorite. But here is a jazz group with an interesting difference. In 1943. The silky voice of the company by Benny Goodman. Brilliant moment in jazz history. But here an 11 year old belt out this 65 year old classic that some expected. Oh.

I think it was. St. Lucie. Immortalizing jazz music is what the band called jazz. Juvenile Brissie is about. And the band is six energetic middle and high school musicians on a mission to preserve the integrity of American jazz. The last thing. Miles Davis Charlie Parker Gordon good ones big big bad daddy and so many other people. Elizabeth why did why use an earlier youngest the only female member of the band who she wanted to be a trumpet player when she was just awesome. And I think it's so loud and Crites and there's just so much go out of it. But she was so tiny it was hard to find a tutor.

Oh is she large furry. Well she's 48 pounds. That's too small and she can't play the trumpet so nobody would take her except for this guy who was kind of an unusual guy. Is he known as skin uncle skin and he's a phenomenal jazz trumpet player. And he said all teacher Sure I'll give it a try. And I thought well this will work until we find a proper classical teacher. Forget classical for a bit. It was love at first. Now that. There's a song around midnight that my trumpet teacher used to play. And. I just love the song so much. And. She's like. This isn't going classical with. The majority of band members became friends in the visual and performing arts program a booker middle school soon bit and drummer Robbie raucus hatched

a plan to form their own band and jazz juvenile ocracy was born. I wanted. Because of that we were. Kids. Sounds like jazz to us I gotta like that so that I like that one. Jazz rule by kids and aided by incredibly supportive parents. What. I want to bring in. Friday night is practiced night for the Jazz Julies the rise new family living room for many makeshift rehearsal hall. It always looks like this except for it usually has sheet music. All over the place. It's like. I'm happy that we counted. My time lots of music everywhere. Rick Nielsen is the band's coach most of the members studied under him at Booker middle.

And last. They're so enthusiastic and I love what they're doing so much it just it really makes it easy to just walk in and listen to them and make some suggestions. They've they've inspired me quite a bit to even do writing for them specifically for their group and for their instrumentation. The group good for me in band is nothing new but kids forming a band to play music that is sometimes older than their combined ages. That's not unusual. All these kids are turning the doorkeepers. Jazz to them is just there. They're intrigued by how it all fits together and how it works and how they feel after the. Former. And how this eclectic group. Together is impressive. The bass player thing is perhaps baffling and.

Is really boring. To me is the foundation of the band. This rock solid is times good as Temple's good he's very very accurate in his meticulous. Rodney is the drummer he's also the back. He slashed. His. Very last. Thing that's how all of our eyes are. With the Johnsons essential Robert's rifle forget it from the trolls. Music's going to be his career. Definitely. A tenor player. Thing is Alex is actually probably the best man and person in the band so we have to give the money. To. A cruise director. And so Alex and all the MC. Is. His actual. Money. Is the. Pro adorned. Sax player. Tommy. He was a genius. Things come easy for him. You could hear it in this plane. Where's the

sunglasses that the sister got in from Wal-Mart. It'll be. 10:00 at night. He will still have it. Plan. C. Is one of my. Fam came in as a guitar player and it was a real comfort. He said what really put him. Really. So we gave him a shot at it and was like OK. Well he turned it around on me. And came back like. You know what he's doing. Now I get to the start of the group a little better. And to me she makes the band firstly because there's a little bit. When you see someone that small in the trunk that's just about as big as she has. You really wonder how can she do that. This determination. She just doesn't understand how. She got stuck on a scrawny little white Bonnie you know. Saturday night performance night loyal audience eagerly awaiting at a club called the Irish Rover.

Let's have a program that was we're almost ready to go. A big round of applause for Jan Drew cannot proceed. Rarely does a day pass where I don't get a call. From somebody wanting. To fight. Now it is a matter of. Taking their. Time. Novelty is definitely part of the appeal place could be to get as juvenile he operates on donations alone. When I did it for myself it really would be competing with like. People like our coach will be competing with those kind of bands which are better than us. Oh there's a really cool magical thing that goes on with these kids whether it's going to the movies or swimming in the pool or. We're just horsing around between rehearsals. Though. There are definitely a lot of it's all about. The more they learn the more they know. That it's a. Long. Haul.

And they have. Taken. A very long time to be the kind of concessions that they want to be. And so it's a working Congress. Work in progress. Giving a fresh face to the old soul of jazz. In previous volumes we have looked in on people who played with model trains model airplanes model cars. Model circus. So it's about time we look in on a man who very seriously models historic boats. Fred Nagl might be retired but his mind and nimble hands are still running full speed ahead. This is a diesel towboat from 1920 you know.

As a problem solver likes to stay busy. Fred Nagl discovered the perfect challenge model ship building. Actual construction. This is every one of these planes is individual and. In this particular. Lifeboat probably a hundred pieces of wood. But the cabin here this is all individual planks of wood all the way down the whole ship is not a sheet of wood of this ocean. The Julie K.T. named after his granddaughter is one of megas most recent projects. Over a span of 40 years they've been more than 80 other eight in scale replicas. So when I want one magazine or a book or catalogue and I see a ship that I like I do it and I just try and get the plans. I'll go to the Smithsonian for plans and National Archives for finance. And almost all the maritime museums the United States had plans. Now in his 80s and still with an eye for the unusual. He has hand crafted

miniature versions of ships like the Pacific in the late 19th century. This side wheeler worked on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers as a railroad transfer ship. The longest I worked on the model was 700 hours I think and we got a problem I walked away from it. Sleep on it think about it in the car or do something else until I figure out how to do it I just don't stand there looking at it. Maybe that's why Nagel is so fond of the USS Tallapoosa. He encountered one construction problem after another. Every one of them turning out to be a joy that's the first time ever really challenge yourself to cut out the integration. Every co. got I thought long and hard about that. Originally built during the Civil War as a blockade runner for the union Navy the Tallapoosa was decommissioned in 1890 to eat. A lot of things going. On outside wheelers Apollo's could sail it's a warship. Very interesting deck its traction.

He claims there is a 62 need to lie in three trees along the side of the plank I use a magic marker that the black is the simulate the target. The particular model I'm working on now I'm building for a friend of mine a civil war monitor type ship and iron clad. Went over a finely usual ship that nobody else has done I like to do it. A ship like the USS Indianola. This happens to be a neat ship that was a side they are. It's got propellers in the back as got props now back to size. Most of the work on this model has been completed in a few weeks. A realistic weatherbeaten paint job will follow final assembly in the mean time tiny section of railing made from tin slivers of laminated apple wood is the work in progress. I'm going to do now is we're going to grill them. With a real post to the rail before

we insert it in the halls. There we go. Though he has sold many of his models for thousands of dollars each. It's not the money that keeps Nagel in his workshop like grown older. Yes my mind is active. I keep it active with the model in my here as a nimble because I've been using them all the time. They just you freeze up on you. You only thing is I would say while I get the shakes and I just have to walk away from the model and come back to it an hour or two later. A model is crafted from a stock of wood an assortment of metal tubing and the odds and ends tucked away in an old jewelers case. This native of Chicago takes great pride in his creations. When I'm building a pearl Winchell on a freighter for example I take all kinds of little parts and put them together cut them down over all Saturn together. They they may not work and they may not be really authentic but it's the perception of the thing that makes them look

at it through four decades spread Nagel as happily kept his favorite hobby afloat. You're doing it with your hands. Nobody else is involved. I feel pretty good about it. It's been a wonderful voyage even though none of his chefs have ever touched a drop of water. If you put them in a bathtub they'll sink in a bottle and not even try. Not to even try. When you're there. Mark Mark you're one of the joys of traveling is meeting people of other nationalities and cultures. Well if you do it right one of the joys of staying at home. Is meeting people of other nationalities and cultures. Consider a group called the Friendship force. A rousing welcome by Sarasota is friendship force for guests from Germany.

Quickly strangers are turning into friend. Sabrina and some below will stay with Ramona McGee one of the Sarasota hosts who've been waiting months for this moment. Long before her house guests arrived Ramona corresponded by email a photo is a reassuring step toward friendship. There's a bit of anxiety you know to get to know them. It's always a new experience. But you know sometimes even having your own relatives can be very nerve wracking too. It may sound like friendship by fire but Ramona has been hosting and traveling with the friendship force for more than 15 years. There are clubs and they go over 50 countries around the world. They're all over 350 clubs around the world here in the States we have clubs at I believe thirty eight states. The philosophy of the COB is by getting

to know people around the world we will better understand one another and help to create world peace. Some of those might hesitate to travel around the world staying with strangers but not Ramona. We can make friends and break down barriers that we view people arc we were in Morocco we stayed in a Muslim home there too and maybe we broke down barriers for them as well as they're breaking down barriers for us. It doesn't appear that Ramona harbors any barriers. She's experienced 14 countries never shies away from taking the road less traveled. Last year at this to Bogota Colombia most people when I told them I was going to die they would lie. Me what's wrong with you. It was very staid very safe and the Colombians are wonderful people. People are very much the same. People are really delightful and loving. And excursion to Caspar's and beach in Venice. Day six of their weeklong visit

the German and Sarasota friendship force look like lifelong friends. This is a wild here and it is known for the shark excitement of treasures found unites one and all for being it is the French Air Force vice president and script coordinator from mare's bird Germany show west of Berlin. All water from the Gulf of Mexico and all water from the salt meat. And so we met here and it I can only repeat it was great. After growing up behind the Iron Curtain of communism should be no Shavers her freedom to travel freedom to believe if you make a foreigner your friend they're less likely to become your enemy. This is a great idea and especially in our times wars I think it's a very important thing I have friends all over the floor.

There you are wonderful. It didn't take long for being a and her best friend should be allowed to feel right at home with their home. All I learned that the first seven seconds when you meet a person the most important there was only love at first sight. Nobody talks about love at second sight. And so I think it was a laugh at it as the debate is that we've had a wonderful time the first time I saw you I knew we were going to get along. That you had such a nice big smile that with. And. Isn't that what friends are for. I'm. OK. Laughter. Another step in the journey of understanding and friendship. Oh.

Act your age. Our mother used to tell his friend we were kids. Why ask a group we're about to meet. These are grownups who like to play a game that really is meant for. Kids in elementary school. They've organized teams into a League One team is made up of employees of the hospital another team is made up of state's attorneys and police officers. Yeah these are these are grown ups. Sort of. Oddball stuff for me to live in second grade. To come over. No. You're still. You're getting the runaround fro the Golden people and I get in trouble for. You.

My name is Alex I don't have one of the arms with a new team. For the videos. But. Most of the game. Simply put ours and throw the ball had the opposing team. If it hits a member of the opposing team they're out. If they catch a ball that you throw your outs and another member of their team gets to come back into the game. My name's Chris applauds and I'm the referee for the adult dodgeball league along with part of the talk. I decided to start a league that was a little bit different than traditional sports leagues for people like me who are necessarily. Better. What a. Funny thing those. People that I tell I play dodgeball too they just don't really understand. They're high for their I played my dad didn't believe me at first he said no way you playing dodgeball. They actually laughed at Nancy.

You serious. The aggression makes the best on ball player because they don't play wimpy or you know play all the way with the full force when you're going out. For it. You're going to get hurt. So you have to definitely be aggressive and stay and watch you down this highway trust that and I'm the co-captain a good taste thank you thank you. Very much for. Being. A good skill player. Too agile. Good arm but mostly just college. My name is Brad proton mom I am the captain of the dream team. See immediately go down by the schoolyard old. Now. No. I mean. Are you too old to new one. I hear people doing things on your I'm funny learn Tom from. Age ranges anywhere from early 20s all the way up to the late 50s Yes.

We've got teachers we've got jurors we've got graphic arts people we've got people that are way too smart to be on our team. Not ball is just not an individual or it's of teams for if you work as a team you're going to. Be complacent. And. I think that's the teams that do the best have strategy. We could when. We look at some of the teams that have been striving for and. We find a more fun to run I'm grabbing for a lot of class and you can and the longer the ball's in your hands. Helicopter if it's in your hand is burning your hand so get rid of it. There are few players that definitely we always try to get out at the beginning of any game we play against them. Yeah well that's a scare tactic to go to. When you know release him and love him no longer. And then they don't know what to do and someone we can just pick them up. We all know we're going to get hit. We just hope that you can take somebody down before you get here to.

Kind of exhilarating and a little painful. I've been had a couple of times by many times I have been hit. By those balls hard. Well somebody was told You Do You told me. You know shit it's something and it fills a community name because it's something that is just not offered to the else in terms of money but I know. Yeah it's growing and I'm still. Going. Our first season we had three teams. This is our second season and you know. Five teams so I expect there to be quite a few teams. In the springs. You are. Probably going to. Look into TV contracts and see if we can get this thing. National so we can actually make some money practice and not have to go to our day jobs.

We're going shooting today around the courtyard of the Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Beautiful place and it gives us the opportunity as we close this month's volume to thank you and give you a few further glimpses of some of the statuary that John Langley collected over the years and bequeath to us all. Ears

and ears one can tell me one or two. Why do you all. Go. Home now. I'm not lying I'm not playing. Ask all of you bookie. You can order this or any other volume of a Gulf Coast journal with Jack Perkins on the high quality DVD format. Call 1 800 3 5 4 9 3 3 8. Or

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