[Dixielandjazz] Re: Alan Greenspan & Henry Jerome Band.

[Bill Biffle]

Please tell me that "Al Haig on piano" is merely a coincidence!!

BB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Alan Greenspan & Henry Jerome Band.


> > "Bill Biffle" <bbiffle at swcp.com> wrote:
> >
> > "After graduation from high school Greenspan studied music at the
> > prestigious Julliard School and accepted his first real job as a
clarinet
> > and saxophone player for the Henry Jerome Band, a swing band based in
New
> > York. "
> >
> > This is the only reference I can find to a band that AG played in.
>
> You are correct Bill. This was his only professional gig situation in a
band.
> Right after High School and before he went on to University and earned
multiple
> degrees in Economics. Below is a partial bio of the Henry Jerome Orchestra
> which prior to, 1944 was a not so good, "sweet" dance band. Note the tie
to
> Greenspan, Leonard Garment and Richard Nixon. Interesting how "history"
> develops quite by chance.
>
> Excerpted from Henry Jerome Band Bio:
>
> "In 1944, Henry re-organized the orchestra. During 1945, when they were
playing
> at Child's Paramount Restaurant in Times Square, New York City. Bandmates
> included two saxophonists, Leonard Garment and Alan Greenspan, Al Haig on
> piano, and 'Tiny' Kahn, who was the band's drummer. The band's arranger
was a
> young Johnny Mandel.
>
> When Garment left the band, he continued his education, and became a
practicing
> Attorney at Law, while Alan Greenspan also continued his education
majoring in
> Economics. Garment later befriended a young attorney, Richard Nixon, who
had
> just joined the same firm at which Garment was practicing. It was Garment
who
> persuaded Nixon that he should continue a career in Politics. When Nixon
became
> President, he appointed Garment as his personal attorney, and it was
Garment
> who recommended his friend Alan Greenspan to Nixon, who subsequently
nominated
> Greenspan to become the Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Banking
System.
> Garment often joked that Greenspan was a better economist than a reedman."
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
> PS. Musicians Rule. ;-)
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Dixielandjazz mailing list
> Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> http://ml.islandnet.com/mailman/listinfo/dixielandjazz
>