clinthopson

Boyd Senter sounds like Eddie Guest's illegitimate son. The bathosphere is getting pretty DEEP.

I'm a Jimmy Noone man myself. You guys with your romantical posts make me all weepy eyed. I gotta go into training since I have to drink for two from Jan. 2 to JUly 4. We owe it to the distilling industry.

Fuck Optical Barr, Louie's Bar is more my style. Especially when I have to drink for two during the "dry" season. Howabout "lound eyed bastids." Gleek Plick?

Oops, you did mention Wetbacks. Gomen Nasai Skaz MacVoutie?

You forgot Camel Jockeys and Wetbacks. I wondeer how Bubber Miley got his name>

Add on "Phant" : For many years Ross has apppeared as a duo with the incorrigible Jack Sheldon. They have one disc "In My Own TIme." Ross, like Jimmy Rowles and Dave McKenna knows every song ever written and he has managed to prod Jack into expanding his repitoire BTW, Sheldon has the most hilarious version of "Twelve Days of Christmas" jazz musician version.

C'mon Clint .. Ross Tomkins ..why? dunno for sure, but seemed to have a knack for materilizing right before a gig would start, and would vanish the same way afterwards .. whats the story you have on that ? Ross was a long time member of the Tonite Show. Doc would come on stage with the boys in the band all in their places except for the empty piano bench. Doc would look over to the sax section and say "Where's Ross?" He's turn around and Ross would be at the keyboard ready to go. Rumor has it that Ross would suddenly vanish from the bandstand and then suddnly re-appear after getting some "reinforcements." Ross told me about the time he was playing with Goodman. They rehearsing a tune when Benny stopped, gave Ross "the Ray" and said "What chord was that, Ross?" Ross replied "the right one."

I highly recommend his "Rock 'N Roll Gumbo." Quiz: name the pianist who is called "The Phantom" and why.

I think it was because he was clasicaly trained and could play the longhair" music. Or maybe it was because of his 'do.

Hey Clint, you handsome bon vivant!!! I don't know whether Muddy [whose childhood nickname apparEntly came from his love of playing in muddy ditches] fits into the parameters of jazz musicians I've set for myself, since he was a bluesman. As for Luckey's height, I guess he had "inner" largeness. I guess that rules out Professer Longhair, Dr. John, Howlin' Wolf and Scatman Crothers.

I caught a show about Willie The Lion on one of the PBS cable channels over the w.e. Willie was a pretty big guy. In the Great Day in Harlem pic, he towers over Luckey Roberts, who was a shorty, but also seems to be higher than most. Actually, the pic of Lion was taken becore the famous pic for Esquire was shot. Lion go tires and was sitting on a stoop next to the crowd. Muddy Waters, 'tricia?

LDB HOP

As in "too wide to get in the door?"

They all relate to the same source, the watermoelon kicking monkey. Who cries in his moment of extasy "re-bop, bebop, hard bop, boparoo!" The cognomen "DEEP" is short for "How Deep He Is In It." And what about Muddy Waters? Huh?

Way back in the 50's I caught the Kid Ory band a few times around L.A. Besides Garland, he had a fine N.O. clarinet player, Joe Darensbourg, a Satch type cornetist Teddy Buckner, and a strong young pianist, Lloyd Glenn. I even have their autographs on a 78 album. If it takes a duck and a half a day and a half to lay an egg and a half, how long does it take a one-legged monkey to kick the seeds out of a watermelon?

LDB, You will pleased to know that I just ordered Outlaw and Bloviation Band for my son's birthday on the 28th. And a rum pa pum pum to you too. HOP

And then there's Cootie Williams. And how the hell did Jay McShann get the nickname "Hootie" and what the hell does it mean?

Napoleon "Nappy" Lamare was a New Orleans banjo player who spent most of the 40's and 50's on the West Coast. He played with the Lu Watters Yerba Buena Band and led his own band with featured the great valve/slide trombone player Brad Gowans. He had a local weekly tv show in the early 50's in L.A. His banjo playing wasn't anything special (but whose is?) but he had a outgoing personality and his band played very good Dixieland.

Sidenote on the aforementioned Anita O'Day. My son did a studio session with Ms. O'Day last month, the band with Seamus Blake, James Zoller and other fine Ny players sounded great. Anita didn't. Of course she is a zillion years old and her pipes are gone. 'Nuff said. Howabout Nappy Lamare? Stuff Smith? Mangy Spaniel??????????

I haven't seen an in depth discussion of Wingy Manone or his dualpegic brother Wingless.

How about that forgotten blues singer Deaf Orange Jefferson

He's my all-time favorite pianist. I think I have just about everything he recorded. FOr me, Bil Evans is like potato chips - you hear one and you just have to hear some more.

LDB Did you ever connect with Joe LaBarbara? We talked about you and your decked out Ford. HOP

I love this band. They were the resident Hollywood Bowl band with John CLayton ad Bowl music director for jazz for a couple of years and did some outstanding concerts until the powers-that-be decided to change. They put Dianne Reeves in and last summer's season stunk. The band has a definite Basie feel but is much more adventurous than, say Juggernaut, band the arrangements, mainly by John,and by several others are a helluyva lot more interesting than Bob Florence's. And IMHO, there's not a better drummer anywhere than Jeff Hamilton.

He says that they've got a number of tunes in the can. Maybe he's inherited his dad's suavity and charm and can handle the most obstrporous old broads.