[Dixielandjazz] Guitarist/entertainer Slim Gaillard

[Robert Loomis]

WOW! Thanks to all and especially Steve Voce for the Slim Gaillard
memories. Fine stuff!

Bob Loomis
Concord CA

Steve Voce wrote:
>
> Here's my interview with Slim.
>
> Steve Voce
>
> Bulee Slim Gaillard's greatest talent is his turbulent surrealist
> imagination, which is on a par with Spike Milligan's in the greatest
> days of the Goon Shows. He is also gifted with a relaxed and most
> attractive voice which is musical even in speech, as shown by his
> intoxicating recordings of Travellin' Blues and Slim's Jam. He is a good
> guitarist and a gifted pianist who can play better with the backs of his
> fingers, as he regularly does, than most can do with the fronts. He is a
> good vibraphonist, too and is perhaps best known as a composer and
> lyricist - in the latter capacity he can truly be said to have changed
> the language.
> (SNIP)
>