[Dixielandjazz] Total recall

[Jerry Gordon]

All you old guys complaining about memory loss. Not me - I can't remember
the last time I forgot something.

Jerry Gordon, Troy, NY - Web master for
http://www.timesunion.com/communities/jazz




On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 17:18:48 -0700 "Richard Broadie"
<richard.broadie at gte.net> writes:
> I recall attending a concert with Louis Armstrong, Bix Biderbecke and 
> Buddy
> Bolden all playing together, where Thomas Edison did the audio work. 
>  Ella
> Fitzgerald,  Billie Holiday and Ethel Waters were outstanding as 
> were Kate
> and Bessie Smith   Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Liberace and Thenolious 
> Monk
> traded choruses on piano and the highlight of the evening was Count 
> Basie in
> a battle of the bands with the Original Dixieland Jass Band.   On 
> second
> thought, that might have been the night I heard the George Shearing 
> Quartet
> and got drunk.   As the man said, "It was about 50 years ago, and my 
> memory
> is not what I seem to recall that it used to be, although I could be 
> wrong
> about that, too."   :-)
> 
> Dick Broadie