[Dixielandjazz] Link to Bill crow's article-To Russia WithoutLove

[Fred Spencer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Fendrick" <jfendrick at bak.rr.com>
To: <drjz at bealenet.com>
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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Link to Bill crow's article-To Russia
WithoutLove


> 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.
>> --end--
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Randy Fendrick
> Southside Chicago Seven
> Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, ret
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