[Dixielandjazz] Bill Gallagher remembers Dottie Bigard

[Robert Ringwald]

Did Dottie pass on?  She was a very nice lady.  

The group was the Legends of Jazz.  I booked them in Sacramento.  They were sort of like the Preservation Hall JB.  That is where I met Tutie Ed Garlin (SP).  

--Bob Ringwald



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Norman Vickers" <nvickers1 at cox.net>
To: "Bob Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 7:33 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Bill Gallagher remembers Dottie Bigard


> To:  DJML and Musicians and Jazzfans lists
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> From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola
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> Here's a link to JAZZ LIVES.  Look at right-hand column, top, and click
> Bill Gallagher remembers Dottie Bigard.
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> Nice column with photos.
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> I visited the home of  late  jazz writer/historian Floyd Levin in LA some
> years ago.  Floyd had a clarinet mounted on his wall which he said was a
> gift from Dottie Bigard.  It was  Barney's clarinet.  Then later, I'd come
> across a memoir of Barney Bigard, and much to my surprise, there was a
> picture  of a musical group all in winter attire in front of an airplane
> which was to take the group to Europe.  Barney, of course, was in the group
> and Floyd Levin was  to accompany them, presumably as sponsor/manager.
> 
> Here's the link:   http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/
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