[Dixielandjazz] Turk Murphy

[Marek Boym]

Hal Smith might have been great on the album.  But would he ADD anything?
I find it difficult to believe.
Cheers


On 14 April 2013 18:52, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> Keith Garner wrote:
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> Yes Marek, I agree with you, the Heidelberg LP has long been one of my
> favourites.
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> 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)
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> Oh, I think Hal Smith would have been great on the album.
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> 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.
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> When I first started playing intermissions at Magoons, the drummer Smokey
> Stover was with the band.
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> On some earlier recordings, I don’t know how many, Thad (Wilkerson) Vanden
> was on drums.
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> I wonder what ever happened to Thad?
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> --Bob Ringwald
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