chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted March 25, 2012 Report Posted March 25, 2012 wow, can anyone copy/paste or recount this whole thing? facinating...... from jazzwax.com--- CADENCE: You were In the Basie band for such recordings as Basie Meets Bond, Basie in the Beatles Bag. What was that all about? LOCKJAW DAVIS: Money. It's always money. CAD: Somebody telling him what to do? LD: That's right. CAD: Roulette Records? LD: No. That joker Willard Alexander [the renowned big-band booker]. Basie was in tax trouble. CAD: Because of gambling? LD: No. Road managers, people like that. CAD: Which road manager? LD: They had 2 or 3 of them. Each one took a little more, to the point where the accountant got in trouble. Instead of sending the money, he was beating it. In fact, 2 or 3 years ago, they gave him some time. CAD: The accountant? LD: Yeah. The (Basie's) wife found out who was really beatin' him all those years. All they got was tax trouble. I know way back then when I was in the office as an agent, the Internal Revenue sent all the agents a list of different audits. If you had any of the audits below, [the list said,] notify us first. So they could garnish the income. And Basie's name was on [the list]. In order to get him out of this bind, he took a lot of funny, funny jobs, funny recording dates. We did a tour with Tom Jones. It had nothin' to do with jazz, nothin'. But the kind of money they gave Basie, it made it worth it for Basie. But not looking ahead at his future, Basie in jazz. Now they couldn't do that with Duke Ellington. CAD: Because he controlled his own thing? LD: But with Basie they could. That's what caused [those albums]. wow, can anyone copy/paste the whole thing or recount other parts of this interview? facinating...... from jazzwax.com--- CADENCE: You were In the Basie band for such recordings as Basie Meets Bond, Basie in the Beatles Bag. What was that all about? LOCKJAW DAVIS: Money. It's always money. CAD: Somebody telling him what to do? LD: That's right. CAD: Roulette Records? LD: No. That joker Willard Alexander [the renowned big-band booker]. Basie was in tax trouble. CAD: Because of gambling? LD: No. Road managers, people like that. CAD: Which road manager? LD: They had 2 or 3 of them. Each one took a little more, to the point where the accountant got in trouble. Instead of sending the money, he was beating it. In fact, 2 or 3 years ago, they gave him some time. CAD: The accountant? LD: Yeah. The (Basie's) wife found out who was really beatin' him all those years. All they got was tax trouble. I know way back then when I was in the office as an agent, the Internal Revenue sent all the agents a list of different audits. If you had any of the audits below, [the list said,] notify us first. So they could garnish the income. And Basie's name was on [the list]. In order to get him out of this bind, he took a lot of funny, funny jobs, funny recording dates. We did a tour with Tom Jones. It had nothin' to do with jazz, nothin'. But the kind of money they gave Basie, it made it worth it for Basie. But not looking ahead at his future, Basie in jazz. Now they couldn't do that with Duke Ellington. CAD: Because he controlled his own thing? LD: But with Basie they could. That's what caused [those albums]. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Posted March 25, 2012 whoops formatting error, i will add i just got a WLP 45 of days of wine/roses b/w speak low from one of his RCA victor albums- never heard this stuff Quote
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