[Dixielandjazz] Smokey Stover

[Don Ingle]

On 10/30/2011 6:45 PM, Stephen G Barbone wrote:
> Dear Marek:
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> Smokey Stover the drummer and Smokey Stover the trumpeter were two 
> different people. There was also a Country & Wester DJ named Smokey 
> Stover, and of course, the Notary Sojac Smokey Stover (google it) of  
> newspaper comics fame. There is also a retired race horse named Smokey 
> Stover. Probably a lot more people and animals with that name also. 
> <grin>
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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Smokey the drummer worked at the Studio City (LA) Club 47 owned by Nappy 
La Mare, Doc Rando and  Noni Bernardi. He later moved to San Fran and 
worked there but was killed - some say murdered - there. A good drummer 
and a pleasant guy for a young squirt (moi) to hang with, his death wqas 
a shocker to many of us.
Smokey the trumpet player was a separate persona, and worked often 
around the Quad Cities Area and in venues around the midwest. He got 
seriously jammed up with the IRS and spent a little time as guest of the 
government in "durance vile," but came back to play again. The last time 
I saw him was at the first Bix Festival in Davenport in 1972 shortly 
after his release. The tax man was not too understanding about passing 
on withholdings from sideman salaries - nor were a few of the sidemen 
who had to cough it up again.

Don Ingle