[Dixielandjazz] The 1951 Bob Cats

[Don Ingle]

 >"where does the tenor sax fit in?")
When it's Uncle Eddie, anywhere he wanted to. I knew Eddie literally all 
my life, as he and dad often shared times together when the Crosby 
bandplayed the Blackhawks and the Weems band was doen the block at the 
Palmer house. Growing up and starting to play, Eddie and Matty Matlock - 
his doppleganger- would allow me to sit in in their jam sessions as the 
old Club 47 in Studio City. Me and Jackie Coon, Gene Estes, and Jerry 
Fuller as well. they's teach me the right changes to a tune, and 
encourage me. It was a mentoring that I still emain in awe of, but then 
their generation and my dad's were like that. Same goes for my first 
teacher, Red Nichols who lived a few blocks away and helped dad find my 
first cornet (used being war time) and then got suckered into giving me 
my first lessons -- and later hired me to write some charts for the 
Pennies after some study with Matty Matlock. The members of the Bobcats 
were not just great players, they were giving and caring people who 
always had time to help a youngster get a good start.
If you have not given something back as these gentlemen did, then you 
need to wake up. I have had the great pleasure of working with some 
young players and see them come along.
It is a great feeling to see talent sudden come into focus.
Eddie Miller, always "Uncle Eddie" at our place, was a giant on the 
tenor sax, and an even bigger gentleman and mentor to a young wannabe.
Players need to pass it on -- if we don't, who then?
Like I said, if it was Eddie Miller, he always had a place on any stand 
I was on...period. I hope you will have the chance to bring a young 
player onto yours.
Don Ingle


Steve Barbone wrote:
> Billy Butterfield et al with the March of The Bob Cats. Note Eddie Miller on
> Tenor. (remembering the past thread about where does the tenor sax fit in)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQf0ijzwk-0
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
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