[Dixielandjazz] [SPAM] Re: More on Bill Wood

[Don Ingle]

Bill Haesler wrote:
> >From Don Ingle: I got a note  form Charlie Lodice, noting this:
> *I PLAYED WITH TED'S BAND DURING THE 50s ..I REPLACED SMOKEY
> STOVER...TOM TOM CLUB GLANDALE...SARDI'S IN HOLLYWOOD & 2 DIXIELAND
> CONCERTS AT THE SHRINES....RALPH HARDEN TRPT. LEE COUNTRYMAN PIANO
> ..BILL WOODS CLAR. TED WAS GREAT....*that he owkred [worked] with Ted
> Vesley;s band. <
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> If my memory serves me correct (although, I wouldn't bet on it any more)
> there was a fine IAJRC Journal article regarding Bill Wood a year or so
> back, which may mention Ted Vesely. All I have to do now is find that
> Journal in my 'piling' system.
> Kind regards,
> Bill. 
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> Don Ingle added: Bill Woood was a wonderful player. He -- as did MAtty Matlock -- had one of the warmest and woody sounds on clarinet among the many fine players at that tme. I knew him over the years he worked with Red Nichols, taking over after Matty and Rosey McHargue and a perect fit with the band playing those marvekous Bobby Hammock arrangements.
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Bill  -- second job -- worked in a camera shop in LA and was the guy I 
bought my film stuff from.
The last time I saw him was at LA when I played the Labor Day bash near 
the airport and he was working with the Yankee Wailers.
Bill still played as well as ever. I was truly saddened when he passed a 
few years later. A very kind man, a player to remember and a pleasure to 
have him lodged securely in my memory banks while the "little gray 
cells" last.
Don
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