[Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Happy Birthday Jon Faddis

[Roger Wade]

The late Chicago trombonist Jim Beebe, a frequent contributor to this list in its early years, shared a personal experience about a time when Miles Davis was the guest artist with Bob Scobey’s Frisco Jazz Band and Jim had a chance to speak with Miles about this very subject.  The main thrust of the piece was about the critic, Leonard Feather, but the Miles Davis/Bob Scobey vignette is in the body of the story.  Here is a link:

http://leeharrismusic.net/leonard_feather.htm

Roger Wade
Really Old Records


> On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Funny berets?  I've read about them, but never saw them in real life.
> And in the early '40's there were lots of "mixed" recordings, later
> intentionally continued by JATP.  Don Byas and Trummy Young played with
> Gillespie (I have a recording).
> Funny noises -sure, I've heard those!
> Cheers
> 
> On 24 July 2015 at 12:49, Patrick Ladd <patrickjladd at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> << 'modernists" could play and get along with swing and Dixieland
>> musicians.>>
>> 
>> Good grief! What perversion  of history have we here?  We used to fight
>> them in the streets. Those oddballs with their funny berets and even
>> funnier noises (well, something like that) Pat
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: Marek Boym
>> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 9:41 PM
>> To: Pat Ladd
>> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Happy Birthday Jon Faddis
>> 
>>  And
>> here was a young kid who went back to the roots of bebop, the days it had
>> not yet moved that far from jazz, and 'modernists" could play and get along
>> with swing and Dixieland musicians.
>> 
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