[Dixielandjazz] Musical non-readers, can you add to the list?

[Stephen G Barbone]

There is an interesting thread about jazz musicians who didn't read at:

http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=11404

  Cheers,
Steve Barbone



On Feb 23, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Norman Vickers wrote:

> To: DJML and Musicians List
> From:  Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola
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> Thanks to DJML Listmates  Robert Calder, “ballen—ballend at deltapathology.com 
> , and Steve Barbone
> For your informative and erudite comments.  At “ballen’s”  
> suggestion, I have ordered “Your Brain on Music” to
> become further informed.
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> Here is a list of  famous  jazz musical non-readers so far.  I hope  
> you can help me add to it.
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> Guitar—Wes Montgomery,  Django Reinhardt
> Reeds—Sidney Bechet,  Roland Kirk ( special category as he was  
> blind- attended school for blind, but presumably played by ear)
> Trumpet:  Louis Armstrong initially.  (learned to read well on  
> joining Joe Oliver’s band in Chicago.)
> Piano—Erroll Garner, Bix Beiderbecke  ( initially Dave Brubeck—see  
> extensive  previous correspondence.  He subsequently became  
> proficient reader.)
> Blind pianists—a special category.  George Shearing, I believe, read  
> Braille.  Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles , presumably didn’t read  
> Braille although Ray Charles, like Shearing, had attended a school  
> for the blind.
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> Vocalists—hundreds of  singers male and female too numerous to name  
> individually.  Was Sinatra a reader?
> Non-jazz category—operatic vocalist  Pavarotti.
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> Thank you all for your comments.  I look forward to your help in  
> adding to this list.
> Your discussions put to rest the charge that DJML is “ just idle  
> naval-gazing chatter!”  (smile)
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> Norman—I’d be lost without you—Vickers
> Jazz Society of Pensacola
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