[Dixielandjazz] Pete Daily

[Ezra Kowadlo]

Bill,

Have you been to the Halls Gap Jazz Festival? I play in a band that walks
off the stage and walks around the marquee and the audience love the vibe.



On 31 May 2011 19:05, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Robert Ringwald wrote [in part]:
> > I heard that while playing one club, Pete [Daily] used to lead the band
> and customers out the door and around the parking lot and into another club
> and then back while playing the Saints.  This one time, they went out
> playing and Pete disappeared and wasn't seen for 2-weeks.
>
> Dear Bob,
> 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.
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Ezra