[Dixielandjazz] Link to Bill crow's article-To Russia Without Love

[Randy Fendrick]

Bill Crow has written a couple of books re: humor among musicians, Go 
to his web site and order them,  they are some of the best I have read  
re: musicians
I have loaned both to other folks so cant cite the names just now, but 
look on his web site, they are well worth the money and useful for one 
liners on your gigs. (tax deductible in the US).  One I remember right 
now is Frank Rehak coming into an early morning gig looking like he had 
stayed up all night and the conductor wanted to make an example of him, 
so he asked Frank to tune the orchestra.  Rehak took out his trombone 
and, with no warm up,  played a perfectly in tune A two octaves above 
his tuning note.  That shut the conductor up.
later,
rf

On Jul 3, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Norman Vickers wrote:

> This is a discussion list etc.
>
> To:  Musicians list and DJML
> From:  Ken Dryden via Norman
>
> Ken Dryden, jazz writer from Chattanooga,  sends this note with link 
> to Bill
> Crow's long article about the trip to Russia with Benny Goodman
>
> Thanks, Ken.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Dryden [mailto:Ken-Dryden at utc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:45 AM
> To: nvickers1 at cox.net
> Subject: Re: Jazz Ambassadors from NYT
>
> Norman:
>
> I think that I sent you the link to Bill Crow's To Russia Without Love 
> (a
> memoir of a horrendous tour with Benny Goodman, though it is a scream 
> as
> well!). Here it is:
>
> http://www.billcrowbass.com/Writing/To%20Russia.htm
>
> After reading it, there should be no doubt as to why many musicians who
> worked with Benny Goodman despised him.
>
> Ken Peplowski is a rare exception.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ken Dryden
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> Norman writes:  Yes, I think that guitarist Howard Alden and Dan 
> Barrett
> were also in that last band Benny organized for the TV special.  These
> younger guys were grateful for the interest Benny showed them.  Also, I
> don't know but suspect that Benny had mellowed by that time and was 
> thinking
> about his legacy.
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Randy Fendrick
Southside Chicago Seven
Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, ret