[Dixielandjazz] Santo Pecora

[Don Ingle]

On 5/30/2011 5:35 AM, Jim Kashishian wrote:
> Found this quite by accident on YouTube:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaYZ8OFe6iU
>
> This is Santo Pecora on trombone, and the amazing George Girard on trumpet.
> Other members of the band can be seen on the LP that is shown on YouTube.
>
> I bought a salmon colored (cover) LP from Santo himself when I visited New
> Orleans for my one&  only nite ever there in 1957.  I was 16, and my parents
> took me to the Famous Door where he was performing.  Part of my early
> ear-training was done with that LP!
>
> Great sounding band, and a very strong trombonist.
>
> Jim
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Jim:
Jean and Iwere married in N.O. in Nove,ber of '55 and I was -laying with 
Ted Weems at the Blue Room of the old Roosevelt Hotel. It was our 
honeymoon after hours when I would get off then we'd hit the Vieux 
Carre' to catch Santo, and head for the Mardi Gras Lounge where Freddie 
Kohlman led a band ( who had to play from a platform back of the bar, 
but could not mix with audience as N.O.still enforced segregation laws 
at the time. The owner, Sid DaVilla, a fine clarinetist, would play with 
the band but had to stand in the well of his own joint to do so as he 
could not be on the stand above with a band of color.  (A time for 
stupidity to flaunt itself!)
Papa Celestine played at the Pollack a few doors up from the Famous Door.
Lots of other jazz going on then.
We'd wind things up at dawn by the river drinking chicory coffee and 
eating bienets and spending a half hour getting all the powered sugar 
off our hands and clothes. Ah - young love.
Our first wedded month in N.O. after months of one-nighters for me. Good 
glue in that Cajun food - we've chalked up 56 years so far.
It was a time to remember as we'll not likely see another like it in our 
remaining span. Not on that scale or with assurance that it will be 
there tomorrow.
Keep the faith, and when in doubt play a G and smile at the older 
ladies. God bless the good old broads - the younger ones could care less 
what you play anyway.
Don Ingle