[Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos & clarinet

[Don Ingle]

Jim:  Not sure of any titles off the top of my white-thatched skull, but
there were so many Crosby tunes on record that he may have been on clarinet
solo-wise on some. However, I heard him play clarinet on a number of
occasions in California, especially when he sat in at the old  Club 47 in
Studio City (owned by Doc Rando, Nappy Lamar, and Noni Bernardi) so he could
keep his jazz chops up. He was in the 20th Century Fox studio orch. under Al
Newman -- Randy Newman's uncle, and these studio guys seldom got much chance
to play jazz for the fun of it. And these guys loved to have fun in their
sessions. In one session, Eddie Miller played ten choruses on Honeysuckle
and never repeated himself a single chorus. Then Matty did the same for 12
choruses, equally fresh each one, and except for the rhythm section, the
rest of the players just sat it out and let the guys go. That is one night
engraved in my little gray cells forever.
I was blessed to grow up in the midst of players like this. To this day I
refer to Eddie Miller and Rosie McHargue as "Uncle Eddie" and "Uncle Rosie."
What a generation these players were for the type of music we share a love
for! Lucky me...my early inspirations living just next door in the Valley.
Don Ingle
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Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Favorite Piano Solos & clarinet


> In a message dated 11/13/02 7:37:35 AM Central Standard Time,
> dingle@baldwin-net.com writes:
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >   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
>
>     This is interesting that Matty would say this.  Eddie Miller's
clarinet
> solo on the Bob Cats "South Rampart St. Parade"is one of my all time
favorite
> clarinet solos...right next to Irving Fazola's solo on "March of the
> Bobcats". I have never heard Eddie play clarinet on anything else...did
he?
>
>     Jim Beebe
>