[Dixielandjazz] Hank D'Amico & Friends

[Stephen G Barbone]

You Tube is surely wonderful. Came across a couple of recently posted  
videos of my neighbor and mentor in the 1950s. Clarinetist Hank  
D'Amico. Hank was a wonderful guy as well as a GREAT clarinetist. He  
died of cancer much too young.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLhPQNnxz3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPC9ZihV2_A&feature=related

And hear him with Tyree Glenn and Johnny Windhurst, Teddy Charles, Sir  
Roland Hanna, Mary Osborne, Coleman Hawkins and Morey Feld at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ISf5f15Og&feature=related

This is the kind of High Energy Black & Tan "Dixieland" that was  
around in NYC, in the 1950s, and 60s. A wonderful time to be there  
listening. BTW, dig Mary Osborne's guitar. She was gigging in NYC  
until 1968 when she moved to Bakersfield CA. Did any of you left  
coasters get to play with her before she passed away in 1992?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband