[Dixielandjazz] Brad Terry's Armstrong story

[Norman Vickers]

To:   Musicians and Jazzfans list & DJML
From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola

 Listmate Clarinetist Brad Terry of Bath, Maine tells this time, as a child,
attending concert with his parents hearing Armstrong and then Thelonious
Monk.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Terry [mailto:brad at triologyjazz.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2014 3:13 PM
To: Norman Vickers
Subject: Re: Bill Haesler's encounter with Louis Armstrong

Hi Nornmn,
Wouldn't you know I have a Louis story. . .. 
This goes way back. . . . I was a kid, surely not driving and I think it was
my parents who took me to a concert some where in Westchester County to hear
Louis. 
Looking back it was a very strange program... Louis did his thing and I sort
of grasped what the music was all about.. It might have been Joe Muraini and
I might have just started playing clarinet.  .Louis was sipping something
from a big glass pitcher and mopping his brow constantly.
 Anyway. . .
Making this strange..after intermission; Thelonious Monk...I had no clue
till years later what that was all about.. 
Monk came on stage and sat at the piano. His bass player came on stage,
looked over at  Monk who played him an'A' to tune to. Then Monk stood up,
reached inside the piano, pulled out a big white bath towel and proceeded to
dry him self off all over like he had just stepped  out of the  shower...
Even then I understood how funny that was..
Never got closer than that to Louis but certainly, like anyone who blows air
through a horn was influenced by him.
brad