[Dixielandjazz] Westy

[Robert Ringwald]

 Daniel Augustine ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu wrote:

  > One of the main reasons i went to the Sacramento Jazz Ju... uh
> Festival this year was to hear one of my favortie sousaphone-players, 
> Westy Westenhofer.  However, i found out there that he would not be 
> playing because of a health problem (it might have been that he had a 
> stent put in).
>     Does anyone have any information about how he's doing?
>
>     Dan


This from Ralf Reynolds:

(snip)
Hola Bob,
Westy is recovering and doing just fine after having a 'pace maker' 
installed.
His email is: westyworks at earthlink.net
Adios,
Ralf
(snip)