[Dixielandjazz] There IS an OKOM Taps!

[Len Nielsen]

Good one Will. I like it. It's my kind of humour.

You would have to know the right place to us it. But then, I guess with
this kind of send off there would be a lot of good humour involved.

Len Nielsen
Victoria Canada

Will Connelly wrote:
> 
> The wonderful reed man Rick Faye died a couple of years ago, and scores
> of musicians from Church Street Station, Disney, Universal and
> surrounding theme parks turned out in an Orlando, Florida, park to say
> goodbye.
> 
> One of the bands was the Perserverance Marching Band that included
> trumpeter Bill Barnes, one of those heavyweights. The band halted,
> drummer Ed Metz Jr. sounded a low roll and Barnes played Taps as I've
> never heard it before. I'm going to risk the list's collective ire by
> attaching it as a very small midi file that will play with Windows Media
> Player.
> 
> If Rick had been alive to hear this, he'd have loved it. It sure
> dissipated the tears that usually flow when this haunting song is
> played.
> 
> Kindly
> 
> Will CXonnelly
> 
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>                Encoding: base64