[Dixielandjazz] Turk Murphy

[Robert Ringwald]

Keith Garner wrote:



Yes Marek, I agree with you, the Heidelberg LP has long been one of my 
favourites.

It also gives me the opportunity to make a comment I wanted to make 
during the recent Ken Colyer thread but didn't get around to.  It comes 
from a piano playing friend and colleague - he was quoting someone, I 
can't remember who, when he said that you have to have a very good 
drummer for it to be better than having no drummer at all. For me the 
Heidelberg LP bears this out - I can't think of any drummer who would 
add a single thing to it.
(snip)





Oh, I think Hal Smith would have been great on the album.



At the time that was recorded, I was playing intermissions at Turk’s club, Earthquake Magoon’s, and playing with the replacement band while Turk was in Germany. 



When I first started playing intermissions at Magoons, the drummer Smokey Stover was with the band. 



On some earlier recordings, I don’t know how many, Thad (Wilkerson) Vanden was on drums. 



I wonder what ever happened to Thad?



--Bob Ringwald