[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 51, Issue 37

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* regarding Kenny Davern using electric guitars:
Are those Gibson hollow-body  ( "fatbody" ) guitars consider'd  electric?
Kenny probably wouldnt work with a Stratocaster.   ( I was a  close
friend of his in his last 5 years,  here in New Mexico.)  He  referred to
the electric piano he got saddled with,  on a gig in Santa Fe  (Bumblebee
Bob's Baja Grill )   as  "that thing," repeatedly,  and  abhorred it.
 
His guitarists were James Chirillo, Michael Anthony, Howard Alden,
Jim Fox, Tony Cesarano, Marty Grosz,   and all those guys  played
those fatbody guitars in almost an acoustic fashion when with Kenny.
Kenny himself preferred to play in concerts sans PA if he could.
 
( He carried around an ancient RCA  DX77 and a RCA 44-something  for
recording sessions,  for his clarinet.)
 
----Mark Weber
KUNM.org
Thursday Jazz Radio Noon
Albuquerque



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