[Dixielandjazz] Pete Daily

[Jack Mitchell]

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> On 31 May 2011 19:05, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
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>> One of Australia's jazz pioneers, banjo playing bandleader Ray Price, did 
>> a
>> similar thing when his band was resident at the Marble Bar within 
>> Sydney's
>> Hilton Hotel in the 1960s. The frontline would regularly march around the
>> bar and lower foyer while the rhythm section remained on stage.
>> One night, cornetist John Sangster (another legend) led the front up the
>> stairs and out into George Street.
>> When they got to Town Hall railway station John caught a train and went
>> home.
>> If this story is wrong my mate, Jack Mitchell, may correct me.
>> *>)
>> Kind regards,
>> Bill.

Dear Bill,
I haven't heard that story before but it certainly sounds like Sangster - in 
his book SEEING THE RAFTERS he said he thought of doing that thing with 
Graeme Bell's band. Graeme's boys certainly did the parade thing, both with 
the earlier Dixieland/ Australian group and also the  later All Stars. I 
remember one performance at Lithgow's Theatre Royal when the front line 
marched out the stall doors but only Bob and Speddo reappeared - everyone 
was craning their necks looking for Ken Herron when he joined in from the 
front row of the dress circle.

Best wishes
Jack