[Dixielandjazz] Re: How to get started improvising

[John Farrell]

That's the guy Bill - does nothing ever stump you?!! Those were happy days -
unfortunately one Thursday on my way to The Greyhound I had a serious
motorbike crash, by the time I came out of hospital Kenny's band had hit
the pop charts bigtime and ended their Chadwell Heath pub residency to go on
to glory. Many years later he auditioned me
for the piano chair when Ron Weatherburn became too ill too continue, but by
then I was married with kids and a mortgage and fearful of risking all
by turning pro, so I declined. Ex-schoolteacher Duncan Swift - a brilliant
pianist -
took the job instead, sadly cancer claimed him a while back.

Cheers,

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
To: "John Farrell" <stridepiano@tesco.net>
Cc: "dixieland jazz mail list" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: How to get started improvising


> Dear John,
> Regarding KB's piano player in the mid 1950s: >During the interval I got
> chatting to his piano player (Pat something-or-other, who used to run a
sports
> shop in Woodford) and told him that I played a little piano too - and to
my
> delight he asked me to sit in for a couple of numbers.
> Would that have been Pat Mason?
> Went on to play with Mick Mulligan, Freddy Randall and Dave Jones.
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
>
>
>