[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Quotes & Al Hirt

[John McClernan]

Just to play devil's advocate....
I worked for 6 months across the street from Al Hirt's NOLA club in  
1971. When we finished work, many nights we went over to his small bar  
on the side street (Saint Louis St.?) and sat in with Al's combo. He  
was always gracious, encouraging to young players, and very musical in  
his own playing. He also knew a ton of tunes. The commercial Al Hirt  
(a la "Cotton Candy") was nowhere to be found in those jam sessons. I  
certainly enjoyed those sessions with Al much more than the ones with  
Pete Fountain.  (Duck! Here come the brickbats!)

Cheers,
John




On May 14, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Marek Boym wrote:

> I can identify with that!  I tried listening to Hirt's records on
> Audiofidelity, and didn't like even one.
> Cheers
>
> On 14/05/2009, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> Charles Mingus was not the only musician who did not like Al Hirt's  
>> music.
>> Humphrey Lyttelton was very friendly with Buck Clayton, and  
>> remembered that Buck's preferred manufacturer of trumpet  
>> mouthpieces sent Buck free mouthpieces every so often. Into each of  
>> these was cut a facsimile of Al Hirt's autograph.  Once Buck had  
>> his new free mouthpieces he took them to be modified, which meant  
>> simply having the Hirt signature gouged out.
>> Ouch!
>>
>>
>>
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