[Dixielandjazz] Frank Sinatra Jr.

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Some of us have a reason to feel grateful to the younger Sinatra, simply for having telephoned Charlie Shavers and invited him to come along on a 1970 trip to Europe, the one I believe from which dates the studio recording with Budd Johnson first issued as LAST SESSION and rather better than the live recording of the same material from Dijon.  Charlie was also recorded in at least one performance with Jay McShann in London, and filmed (see YouTube)with Ben Webster blowing lustily in Copenhagen.  

Charlie of course survived Louis Armstrong by only days.If it was from Steve Voce's writing long ago that I learned that Charlie had been brought across the channel, well, I've felt grateful to him on many counts, for decades!
Robert R. Calder
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