[Dixielandjazz] Dave Gannett status; Ed Polcer

[Dan Augustine]

Folks--
     Last week the Austin Traditional Jazz Society hosted Ed Polcer's 
Jazz All Stars for a Sunday-night concert and a Monday-morning 
clinic, and both of them were great.  (See my review and some 
pictures of it at http://www.atjs.org/HEADS/40.htm.)
     At the reception after the concert i was talking with Ed Metz Jr. 
about the Black Dogs and Dave Gannett.  Metz said that Dave is not 
playing tuba currently because he has been driving an 18-wheeler in 
Alabama and had a bad accident with some truck-machinery accidentally 
hitting him in the teeth (i don't remember the exact details of how 
it happened).  I don't know where Dave is in Alabama, nor his 
email-address, but it sure hope he's going to be OK.  If anyone knows 
more about him, please let us know.

     Dan
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