China Boy

Gunhild Carling, Johan Blomé, their children Idun and Viggo, Nanna Carling, and others (2022)

This was posted on February 26, 2014, but the performance was on December 30, 2022. It was at Keystone Korner in Baltimore. As usual, Nanna was having the most fun. (She's one of the daughters of Gunhild's older brother Max Carling.) Viggo does a great job on drums. Unfortunately, I don't know who that is on clarinet. Whoever it is, he's great!

China Boy is a hot jazz standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOl3_ilTcfQ

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Gunhild Carling and her Speakeasy (from a secret location somewhere in NorCal)

with Clint Baker, Riley Baker, Nathan Tokunaga, Viggo Carling Blomé , and Neil Fontano (2024)

This was live-streamed yesterday morning. Looks like Idun has gone back to UC Irvine. Nathan Tokunaga again, this time with his teacher, Clint Baker. The kid is so good! Neil Fontano, BTW, is also a great drummer.

Great performance of "Clarinet Marmalade" at 20:15. Incidentally, there's a great record of this by Wild Bill Davison and his Commodores. I'm sure I posted it some time in the past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Ui1Mk9yVg

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Gunhild Carling and her Speakeasy

from a secret location somewhere in NorCal, livestreamed Feb. 18, 2024

Excellent work from Nathan Tokunaga on clarinet and sax! This guy's only 17. We need to watch for this name in the future.

This video is Gunhild's usual mix of her own compositions, New Orleans jazz from the 1920s, and a little other jazz not so hot. The second song is "Sister Kate" ("I Wish that I Could Shimmy Like my Sister Kate"), followed by Idun Carling singing "Meet Me Where They Play the Blues."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECOOSQ0WGs

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