[Dixielandjazz] : Dick Cary

[Richard Broadie]

In response to a private email:  I've been insructed to point out that Liza
Morrow is the same one that sang with Benny Goodman's band in '46 and her
husband, Dale McMickle was the original lead trumpet player in the Glenn
Miller band.  After Dale lost his life to cancer and my parents died, I had
no place to stay in the LA area.  After clearing it with my wife, Lisa gave
me a key to her house and Dale's room became my LA home while I worked as a
remastering engineer at Capitol Records on such as their award winning
Ultra-Lounge series.  When I got off work from various gigs or left Audio
Engineering Society, Sapphire Club or Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers meetings, Liza entertained me with countless stories of
the big band era, that I was too young to experience. Wish I thought to use
a tape recorder to document her memories.  Sadly, Lisa died a couple of
years ago, I believe at age 84.  The last time I played with Abe Most was at
the celebration of her life, held at her North Hollywood home.  I have been
blessed with so many memories.  Just wish I could recall them with greater
lucidity.  Dick B

Hope this is of interest to someone.  Dick B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Broadie" <richard.broadie at gte.net>
To: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at nsw.bigpond.net.au>
Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:00 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] : Dick Cary


> Lisa Morrow McMickle's daughter, Christie,  lived is a separate house on
> Dick Cary's property and rather took care of him and the place to the
extent
> it ever got cleaned up.  I met Dick while dropping off some dog food for
> Christie.  He invited me in and asked if I'd mind if he finished some work
> while we were talking.  I witnessed him rapidly writing a big band
> arrangement, one part at a time without any master score.  He told me it's
> simply in his head and all he has to do is put it on paper.   While
talking
> for about 30 minutes on a variety of subjects that I don't recall, I
> witnessed him do an entire arrangement that his rehearsal band would run
> through the following week.   I met several of his players at Leon's Steak
> House in North Hollywood a few weeks later who told me this is the way
Dick
> always works, and that on the first run-through, they couldn't recall ever
> needing to change a note.
>
> Although invited several times, I never managed to attend his band's
> rehearsal at his home.  I heard his excellent band at the Sweet & Hot
> festival several times and was greatly impressed.  While his music was
very
> modern, you could still hear his roots, from which he logically extended
his
> music to a new and exciting level.   (Reminds me of speculation of what
Bix
> would have written or performed, had he lived 20 years longer - likely
would
> have sounded like Dick Cary.)
>
> Dick lived in very humble surroundings that he was basically oblivious to.
> They were surrounding that were his home and provided an environment  that
> was obviously wonderfully conducive to his tremendous creativity.  I never
> met anyone with so little in material things that felt so perfectly
> comfortable in such surroundings.  Maybe Dick got it right.  When music is
> the center of your life, the rest of the stuff just doesn't count.   In
> spite of his physical surroundings, Dick was one of the wealthiest people
> I've ever met.
>
> Dick Broadie
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at nsw.bigpond.net.au>
> To: "Paul Edgerton" <paul.edgerton at eds.com>
> Cc: "dixieland jazz mail list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:29 PM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Dick Cary
>
>
> > Dear Paul, Warren, Bonnie, Burt and Jim.
> > I first met Dick Carey when he came to Australia in 1964 with the Eddie
> Condon
> > Band.
> > A few of us took time off work, met the band at the airport and drove
them
> back
> > to the Festival Hall venue for the sound check, then on to the hotel.
> > It was here that a shyish Mr Cary introduced himself to me saying that,
as
> the
> > odd man out, we probably would not know who he was.
> > I assured him that we certainly did and that I had the Louis' 1947 Town
> Hall
> > Concert and Victor studio records to prove it, among other records he
had
> made.
> > I don't think he expected Australians to know anything about jazz.
> > (Eddie Condon told us on arrival about Joe Rushton's tragic death a few
> days
> > before, and also about Jack Teagarden (mid Jan). We did not know about
> Joe, but
> > when I told Eddie that Tea had been given a two-third page obit in our
> Melbourne
> > daily, 'The Age', he was astounded. "He only got a few lines in
Variety!"
> said
> > Condon.
> > But I digress (as usual).
> > We haunted the band at the venue and parties all the time they were in
> > Melbourne. Buck Clayton, Vic Dickenson, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell,
Dick
> Cary,
> > Jack Lesberg (who later lived and recorded here for a while), Condon,
> Cliff
> > Leeman and Jimmy Rushing. I also spent several hours with Buck Clayton
and
> Mr
> > Rushing, listening to them catching up and talking about the 'old' days.
I
> was
> > in Heaven!)
> > Dick Cary returned to Australia as the special guest of the 31st
> Australian Jazz
> > Convention in 1976. It was held over the last week in December in
> Brisbane, in
> > hot and humid Queensland.
> > Dick fitted like a glove, sitting in with everyone. He and I spent some
> time
> > together (he remembered me from the Condon tour) and shared quite a few
> 'dirty'
> > jokes over the week. I was present for the two day 'mix 'n' match'
> recording
> > session which teamed Carey with top Oz jazz musicians Bob & Len Barnard,
> Ade
> > Monsbourgh, Neville Stribling (Simon's dad), Ken Herron; Ed Gaston,
Lachie
> > Thompson, Frank Johnson and Mileham Hayes (who organised the recording).
> > A great LP, unfortunately now well and truly deleted.
> > Kind regards,
> > Bill.
> > PS: Apologies Paul. I thought you were putting Dick Cary down.
> >
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