[Dixielandjazz] Other Trips On a Time Machine

[Don Ingle]

reid1947 wrote:
> Robert Ringwald writes:
>> There are several.  Since I was 15 years old and saw the film, the 
>> Benny Goodman Story, I have wished that I could have been at Carnegie 
>> hall in 1938 when Goodman played there.
> Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>
> Don Ingle replied:
My ideal time machine would take me to thee Graystone Ballroom inb 
1926-27 to hear te Gene Goldkette band when theey played one of their 
sizzling hot numbers like My Pretty Gal, or the sound of Bix's cornet 
taking the solo on Clementine. That was the band that was hands down 
sinner of the batle of the bands later in NY oppsitue of the Henderson 
band. To do that is  enought o make a believer out out of anyone with 
jazz-attuned ears.
(I might arrange a stop over there to catch the Don Redman led McKinny's 
Cotton Pickers tqke the Graystone bandstand. )
In my case I did hear the '30's Bob Crosby band (as a band brat having 
dinner at the blackhawk one night when my dad had the night off with Ted 
Weems who was just across the street at the Palmer House. The Crosby 
bunch and the Weems guys were all good friends, even played softball 
together. Matty and Eddie Miller became my good friends - "uncles" 
really - as I grew up and started to play later in CA. So that, too 
would be a good place to land the time machine.
One more Chicago stop I would have to make would be the Club DeLyse 
(sp?) bandstand where the Earl Hines band was cooking in the '30.s.
My friend Quinn Wilson who was on the Jazz Ltd. Band in the five years I 
worked in it the 60's was on tuba and bass with Hines' band, and from 
his stories and the recordings made of that band, it would have been a 
blowout night when they were playing.
So many stops, so little time, time machine or no. But that would make 
an itinerary  to have.
Don Ingle