[Dixielandjazz] George Rock

[dingle at baldwin-net.com]

Butch Thompson wrote:

>On 8/17/05 2:00 PM, "dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com"
><dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com> wrote:
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>>the only George Rock I can think
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>I worked for several years with George "Red" Maddock, a really solid
>swing-era-bred player (born in 1916) who knew George Rock when (I believe)
>they were both working in New York around the mid-40s.  George was with
>Spike Jones, Red at the time with Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists,
>another comedy outfit which I'll bet some people on this list will remember.
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>Mr. Rock played the 1979 (?) St. Louis Ragtime Festival (I think he was with
>Turk Murphy that week).  Red and I were there with the Hall Brothers band
>from Minneapolis.  George and Red hadn't seen each other in something like
>30 years.  When they came face to face, Red stuck out his hand and said
>something wildly enthusiastic like "George!  Long time no see! Wow!" (or
>something like that -- you get the idea).  George gave him a deadpan Buster
>Keaton look and said, very matter-of-factly, as you might to somebody you'd
>seen 30 minutes rather than 30 years ago, "Oh, hi, Red," and he just kept on
>walking.  It was a great joke, and Red loved it.  Maybe y9ou had to be there
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>Butch Thompson
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To add to this post, the bassist with Al Trace for much of this period 
was Charlie DeVore's father, Dave. Dave subbed for awhile at Jazz Ltd. 
when I was in the house band, so I knew Charlie's dad before I knew 
Charlie. And of course to make the small world circle even more linked, 
I worked in Aspen with Freddie Fisher, with whom Geroge Rock worked at 
an earlier time, and of course George joined Spike at a time when my dad 
was one of the featured players so I got to know him, too. Hell I even 
know Butch -- I know EVERYBODY in this circle. Just a big know 'em all, 
I guess.
Don Ingle