[Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos & clarinet

[Don Ingle]

  Lots of label errors then -- and now.
  I studied arranging with Matty Matlock and learned a lot of stories about
the Crosby Band days.One  time he told me the story on how a gushing jazz
enthusiast came up to him after a set and said..."Oh, Mr Matlock. I love
your playing. I have the original record of  South Rampart Street Parade and
just loved your solo on it."
  Matty, ever the gentle gentleman from Paducah, smiled and thanked the
gushee, but added..."however, the solo on South Rampart was not me, but Mr.
Eddie Miller.!"
  He told me that people had been crediting that clarinet solo to him for
years. "Frankly, Eddie was really the best clarinetist of all of us on the
band. That he happened to play the best tenor sax around just seemed to mask
that fact."
  Don Ingle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Cooke" <patcooke@cox.net>
To: "Lou Shimbart" <lou.shimbart@sympatico.ca>; "George Thurmond"
<gmthur@delrio.com>; "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos & clarinet


> Lou Shimbart said:
>
> >>>>I have March of the Bobcats on Jazz archives but it has Matty Matlock
on
> clarinet though it seems Irving Fazola played the rest at that session
> 14/03/1938 so I presume the Bobcats must have recorded it again.<<<
>
>      If you have one of the old original Decca 78's, the label says Matty
> Matlock on clarinet....but it's WRONG!
>      Every musician around New Orleans knew it was really Fazola.  I asked
> Fazola why someone else's name was on the label.......it was obviously a
> sore subject with him.  He said Decca had a lot of recordings of the Bob
> Crosby band on file, and some clerk at Decca had used the personnel list
> they had on file for a previous recording by the Bobcats.
>     Pat Cooke
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lou Shimbart" <lou.shimbart@sympatico.ca>
> To: "George Thurmond" <gmthur@delrio.com>; "DJML"
> <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos & clarinet
>
>
> > I have March of the Bobcats on Jazz archives but it has Matty Matlock on
> > clarinet though it seems Irving Fazola played the rest at that session
> > 14/03/1938 so I presume the Bobcats must have recorded it again.
> >
> > Not trying to correct just clarify.
> >
> > Regards     Lou
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Thurmond" <gmthur@delrio.com>
> > To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:10 PM
> > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos
> >
> >
> >     Finally, I forgot to add agreat clarinet solo on my earlier post.
> > Irving Fazola's on the Bobcats "March of the Bobcats".  Many have tried
to
> > copy or duplicate it, but none, to my ears, ever got it like Faz.
> >
> >
> > George Thurmond
> >
> >
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