[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Bill Bardin et al.

[glen page]

>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "glen page" <gpage at dccnet.com>
> To: "Robert Smith" <robert.smith at tele2.no>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 6:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Bill Bardin et al.
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Sorry that I cannot say much about al BUT the recent thread about Bardin
> > happens to coincide with me reading a great book that has many fine
> accounts
> > of that era in California and Bardin is prominently featured.
> >
> > The book, "Heaven On The Side", was very well written by somebody who
> lived
> > with Turk for a while and was an intimate of the Murphy band and many
> > aspects of the interesting side of life in Southern California and San
> > Francisco.
> >
> > No doubt many of you Californians have heard him play and have not known
> > about his interesting past. An interesting career in journalism prepared
> him
> > to write a very readable book, even for me who is not particularly
> > interested in much of the jazz world in California, excepting Bunk's
brief
> > stay  there and Ory in the days of Simeon and Carey, and of course
George
> at
> > a somewhat later time.
> >
> > The man in question is James Leigh, tbn with Gremoli, I happen to enjoy
> > Gremoli but that has nothing to do with my enjoyment of this book, If
you
> > like Watters and Turk and frank accounts of life living close to them
then
> > this book is a must.It  has an ISBN number of 0-7388-5602-9 and is
> published
> > by Xlibris Corp.Possibly further details may be obtained at
> www.Xlibris.com.
> >
> > There, I'm finished now, if I've helped to make one person happy I'm
> > pleased. Somehow I know that if Father Mike has not read this book it
will
> > excite him.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Glen..
> >
>