[Dixielandjazz] Cathcart on Welk

[Jack Mitchell]

On 27/11/2014 6:36 AM, Charles Suhor wrote:
> One of his featured vocalists, Andra Willis, married Larry Muhoberac. Larry was a boy genius--modernist on piano and trombone, played with Connie Jones as a kid, went with Woody Herman at age 18, etc. etc. I played some jam sessions with him at LSU when I was at Loyola. Cripes, what gifts!  Anecdote: At a gig with a N.O. dance band, someone requested a song that wasn't in the book. During intermission Larry dashed off parts for the whole band, without a score. I was jealous of Larry, not because I was ridiculously out of his league as a musician but because he was adored by the girl is was mad about, pianist/vocalist Theresa Kelly. Larry continued to move in many circles and, I learned only in recent years, became Elvis' pianist for a while under an assumed name. Life's surprises and ironies, they just keep coming.
>
Pianist Larry Muhoberac turned up in my discography of Australian jazz 
from 1990 to 1995, recording in Sydney with the cream of local musicians 
- Bob Barnard, James Morrison and heaps of others unknown to most 
members of this group. I wondered where he came from, now I know. I have 
no idea of his present whereabouts.

Best wishes
Jack Mitchell