[Dixielandjazz] Aaron Sachs was Sol Yaged

[Marek Boym]

"Hank D'amico is yet another name which is not, I suspect,
*that* well known here."
Nor elsewhere, I am faraid - at the wrong place at the wrong time!
Cheers


On 26/09/2007, Dingo <roadie at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> From: Steve Barbone
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 2:41 AM
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Aaron Sachs was Sol Yaged
>
>
> "Dingo" wrote:
>
> >> ----- Original Message - From: Steve Barbone
> >>
> >> Sol like all of us clarinet wannabe's in the 1930s/40s couldn't help but
> >> play like Benny. BG influenced all of us. Sol idolized him.
> >> <snip>
> >
> > Interesting piece, Steve, Sol not being *that* well known here in the UK.
> > Another clarinet player of that same era, again not well known here, but a
> > favourite of mine based on his recordings with Red Norvo, was/is Aaron
> > Sachs. Do you have any first hand knowledge/info etc about him ?
>
> Hi John:
>
> Sorry, no first hand knowledge of Aaron Sachs. But I do have first hand
> knowledge of Hank D'Amico, a wonderful clarinetist who also recorded with
> Norvo (& Mildred Bailey), as well as with Louis Armstrong. He was a neighbor
> of mine in Queens County, NYC. Took me to various jazz clubs when I was
> still in high school and introduced me to Armstrong, Omer Simeon, Sidney
> Bechet, Tony Scott and others.
>
> Beautiful tone, great ideas, but very different from Goodman though the
> influence was there. He became a studio musician in the 40s in order to make
> a living and raise a family while gigging jazz on the side. Great player,
> great man, died too young from cancer at age 50. I also dated his daughter,
> Betty Lou, a dancer and a beautiful girl in every way.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Thanks, Steve. Apologies for delay in acknowledging ~ we have builders in at
> the moment so things are a bit chaotic and I'm only just catching up on a
> backlog of mail. Hank D'amico is yet another name which is not, I suspect,
> *that* well known here.
> Regards,
> ~~
> John D
>
>
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