[Dixielandjazz] Re: Jazz Festivals

[Richard Broadie]

First sentence should have read "Had BG's 38 Carnegie Hall Concert NOT been
recorded"

Oops!  Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Broadie" <richard.broadie at gte.net>
To: "G. William Oakley" <gwilliamoakley at earthlink.net>; <TCASHWIGG at aol.com>
Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Jazz Festivals


> Had BG's 38 Carnegie Hall Concert been recorded, I likely wouldn't have
> grown up loving jazz.  When my dad brought home a box of Columbia extended
> play records the size of a 45 rpm, but I belive spun at 33 1/3 rpm, I was
> enthralled with the music.  In addition to influencing me as a jazz fan
and
> later, a jazz musician, this recording established a bond between my dad
and
> myself that lasted to the day he died.
>
> Little did I know in the mid 1950s in my small midwestern home town of
> Waverly Iowa that I would know Albert Marx, the man responsible for the
> recording being made, or that I would play with  Bobby Hackett, Teddy
> Wilson, Jess Stacey and Martha Tilton, all who were on that semimal
> recording.  I even got to visit a few hours with Lionel Hampton who, of
> course, was featured with BG's small groups at Carnegie as well as many
> times elsewhere.
>
> When I found out I had cancer about 3 months ago, I not only focused on
the
> future but also the past.  Not many have been as blessed as I  have to
> actually see so many childhood dreams fulfilled.  And as much fun \as I've
> had, I truely believe the best is yet to come.
>
> Dick Broadie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "G. William Oakley" <gwilliamoakley at earthlink.net>
> To: <TCASHWIGG at aol.com>
> Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 9:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Jazz Festivals
>
>
> > Snippet:
> > "Benny Goodman's concert at Carnegie which  included some very fine
> > musicians other than his band."
> >
>
>
>
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