[Dixielandjazz] Re: Clarinets

Tue, 04 Jun 2002 23:12:48 -0500

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on 6/4/02 7:39 PM, Lzch12@aol.com at Lzch12@aol.com wrote:

      Evan Christopher, John Allred, Jon-Erik Kelso, Johnnie Varro, and I
believe Ron Mueller played here in Sarasota and they used the local drummer,
Mike Moran. I had never heard Evan play before and was greatly impressed by
his having a voice of his own, though he obviously could compete with anyone
for a classical tone. Also he played his---off. What was really nice about
the concert is that Mike Moran, a local drummer who had a bad stroke about
nine years ago played with them. The Docs had told Mike that he would never
play again. Mike started out just hitting alternate sticks--one, two, three,
four, and continued that for about three years. He made his way back to
playing great. He is a time keeper, listener, type of player, very
unobtrusive but driving. It made me very happy to see him have the chance to
play with these guys.
       More than you were asking about but just a chance for me to tell
about Mike. chuck 

"chuck" means Chuck Kercher, folks, and you all should know that this guy,
unassuming as he may be, is a wonderful player of OKOM on both cornet and
clarinet, and just maybe the sweetest guy on the list--and this list, as you
all know, has on it a lot of very good guys!   So when Kercher speaks,
listen.  OK?

Charlie 

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on 6/4/02 7:39 PM, Lzch12@aol.com at Lzch12@aol.com wrote: 
 
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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Evan Christopher, John Allred, Jon-Eri=
k Kelso, Johnnie Varro, and I believe Ron Mueller played here in Sarasota an=
d they used the local drummer, Mike Moran. I had never heard Evan play befor=
e and was greatly impressed by his having a voice of his own, though he obvi=
ously could compete with anyone for a classical tone. Also he played his---o=
ff. What was really nice about the concert is that Mike Moran, a local drumm=
er who had a bad stroke about nine years ago played with them. The Docs had =
told Mike that he would never play again. Mike started out just hitting alte=
rnate sticks--one, two, three, four, and continued that for about three year=
s. He made his way back to playing great. He is a time keeper, listener, typ=
e of player, very unobtrusive but driving. It made me very happy to see him =
have the chance to play with these guys. 
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nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;More than you were asking about but just a chance for=
 me to tell about Mike. chuck 
 
&quot;chuck&quot; means Chuck Kercher, folks, and you all should know that =
this guy, unassuming as he may be, is a wonderful player of OKOM on both cor=
net and clarinet, and just maybe the sweetest guy on the list--and this list=
, as you all know, has on it a lot of very good guys! &nbsp;&nbsp;So when Ke=
rcher speaks, listen. &nbsp;OK? 
 
Charlie
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