[Dixielandjazz] Musical Variations - was fugues.

[Steve Barbone]

Ginny at Gluetje1 at aol.com wrote (polite snip)

> Maybe I'm not so old after all.  If I am in your audience I invite you  to
> include all of the variations (snip)

Reminded me of one I left out. A few years ago, we had a pianist who also
played reeds, brass, banjo & bass. He loved to play piano with one hand and
flugelhorn with the other. He would solo that way, accompanying himself, no
other players, once or twice a night. It was always a treat to watch the
audience as they searched for the horn player until they realized it was the
pianist. Then they'd all start pointing. BTW he could play real Bach like
fugues with himself that way on tunes like Hoagy's "New Orleans".

He would also trade fours with himself sometimes on piano and a horn, other
times on two horns with just a bass back-up. VERY EFFECTIVE as he is a
master jazz musician in his second life after retiring as a Master Chief
Musician from the US NAVY band. Too bad he lives in Annapolis MD and is just
a little too far away from us.

Maybe Sheik who lives down that way, knows him . . . Dick Glass.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone