[Dixielandjazz] Alvin Alcorn

[Burt Wilson]

Dear John--

Just for the record, Alvin Alcorn was not playing with Ory when I sat in with
the band. His trumpet player was Teddy Buckner, a Louis worshipper and great
player. The rest of the band was Joe Darensburgh, Tudie Garland, and Ram Hall
on drums.

What made the whole thing extraordinary was that in 1966 I re-formed my Silver
Dollar Jazz Band in Hollywood and followed Nappy Lamarre into the Hollywood
Shakey's. My piano player was the great Alton Purnell from the Bunk Johnson
Band and who filled in on bass from time to time? Tudie Garland!

Burt Wilson

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:43:28 +0100 John Farrell <stridepiano@tesco.net> wrote:

> Burt Wilson's enviable remembrance of :
> 
> "The sit-in I best remember was with the great
> Kid Ory"
> 
> reminded me of my National Service days (a
> compulsory two-year stint in the
> British military) way back in the 1950s. It was
> during those otherwise
> hateful two
> years that a fellow National Serviceman
> infected me with the OKOM virus (an
> occurrence for which I shall always be
> grateful) - I still remember his
> name, Phil Tietjen.
> 
> One of the first records Phil played to me was
> a Kid Ory band with Alvin
> Alcorn on trumpet (or was it cornet?). I grew
> to love the sound of this band
> so much that I used to borrow a record player
> and play the LP at full blast
> out of my barrack room window in the hope of
> converting my rock-and-roll
> compatriots to the truth.
> 
> Although I had my suspicions extensive
> enquiries never revealed who was
> responsible for smashing the record player into
> a thousand pieces. Its owner
> never forgave me (my weekly army pay was only
> one and a quarter pounds so
> replacing it was unthinkable).
> 
> Does anyone know Alvin's story? What happened
> to the man who stirred my soul
> all those years ago?
> 
> John Farrell
> stridepiano@tesco.net
> http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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