[Dixielandjazz] Cathcart on Welk

[Charles Suhor]

Muhoberac and and his wife are retired in Sydney, Australia. See the article below, by an Elvis-mongering writer. I had to smile when I read the concluding lines: "Larry thinks for a moment and smiles. 'You know, of all the people I have ever worked with the only person people ever ask about is Elvis."

Charlie


http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview_with_larry_muhoberac.shtml



On Nov 26, 2014, at 4:25 PM, Jack Mitchell wrote:

> 
> 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
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