[Dixielandjazz] Eldridge and women - was rules - was chords & melody

[Goggin, Brian (Dublin)]

Deadly!

He was some bit of stuff allright.

Have you read Chilton's biography?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stephen Barbone [SMTP:barbonestreet at earthlink.net]
> Sent:	Friday, January 24, 2003 4:57 PM
> To:	Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject:	[Dixielandjazz] Eldridge and women - was rules - was chords
> & melody
> 
> Brian Groggin wrote:
> 
> "That's why Roy Eldridge gave up the drums - he couldn't disassemble
> them in
> time to get out with the women!!"
> 
> List mates:
> 
> Amen. Did a gig with Eldridge at a theater/concert hall in Southampton,
> Long Island in the fifties and then a follow up at a large mansion
> rented for the summer by a group of would be Gatsby's. Party had
> beaucoup women in attendance. Scene right out of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
> 
> Roy Eldridge was observed leaving the house at every break with a
> different woman on his arm, only to return 15 minutes later looking a
> little rumpled. Of course, since I was young and single at the time, I
> must admit also to the back and forth from mansion to a buddies' car on
> each break.
> 
> It was a rare night.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> 
> 
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