[Dixielandjazz] 1986 Session At Merle Koch's Silver Stope

[Robert S. Ringwald]

  Merle Koch session 1986

 Merle Koch piano, had been a friend of Pete Fountain and had lived and 
played with Pete for many years in New Orleans before settling near Reno, 
Nevada in Virginia City.  There he opened a jazz club, called the Silver 
Stope.  A couple times a year he would invite some of his old jazz friends 
over for a weekend of jamming. Merle liked clarinetist Bob Newman, then 
with the Fulton Street Jazz Band out of Sacramento California and invited 
him over for many of these sessions.

In 1986, Merle was suffering from terminal cancer of the throat, it was 
going to be the last weekend that Merle would play with his friends at the
Stope.  In these tunes we see Merle together with Dick Cathcart trumpet, 
Eddie Miller
tenor sax, Bob Havens trombone, Bob Newman clarinet and completing the
rhythm group are Bunky Jones bass, and V.J Bourgeois drums.

"Sweet Georgia Brown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4odRSWKB2W4

"Deed I do"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8_fv2HkUzo&feature=related