[Dixielandjazz] booker and coarse trombonist

[Marek Boym]

Have you ever heard Miles Copeland play?
Cheers


On 24 June 2013 23:46, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:

>
>
> Quite apart from what G. Miller was famous for,
> and got rich from,
> and indeed before all that
> he did play some nicely unpolished trombone on record
>
> and according to memoirs I read years ago
> he was mostly an organiser of other men's bands for gigs.
> Or gigs for other men's bands.
> No notion of the progressive cultivation of a musical vision
>
> Comparable with Allan Greenspan or maybe Miles Copeland?
> Of course there is the Tuxedo Junction connection:
> Copeland as a young white man was friendly with Erskine Hawkins' musicians
> and when he was interviewed as the former head of the CIA who'd been
> a jazz trumpeter he said that as a lad he would drop in on the band's gigs
> up north
> and all the trumpeters were sick of the opening figure in that number
> and when Copeland turned up they were glad to let him play it...
>
> Give me Erskine Hawkins any day
>
> Robert R. Calder
>
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