[Dixielandjazz] Ory and Basie and Jimmie Rushing on piano

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

The clarinetist referred to was Caughey Roberts,whose name was pronounced, I was told long ago, as if the GH was SHand the O as in Cosh, Tosh, Bosh, Dosh, Posh or even Quash (I list those words to try to squeeze out regional variants and he was the man replaced by Earle Warren in Basie's band ... Well, previous to working for Basie, Jimmy Rushing worked for Jelly Roll Morton ... 
and for piano fanatics, there is about a half-hour of Jimmie (alternative spelling) playing piano as well as singing in the Ralph Gleason TV series, whose copyright owners have managed, with better success than people complaining about very nasty and violent things, to have YouTube pull it (somebody else then uploaded it). The DVD is recommended, like the solo Joe Sullivan, though it's possible Joe plays even better on the Muggsy Spanier item.Caughey was the young man who went West, Jimmie went mid-west.Another young man who went West was called Brooks, and played very well on Ory recordings and on film with Ory, and besides elsewhere his playing was mimed to by Cary Grant, when this particular Brooks was M.D. to Mae West, in a film in which the young C.G. asks "Hevnt you ever met a menn who could make you really heppy" (mixed regional variant, he meant happy"
Mae: Lotsa times. (no need to spell out what she meant!).I gather from a Spanish friend that the aforementioned Brooks (recorded also with Paul Howard) has by dint of my mentioning these references been granted a proper place in the discography of stride pianists. I know of Streamline Ewing from his Earl Hines days. He also later recorded amazingly enough with John Lee Hooker!I'd be grateful for a copy of the photo, Jim. Your picture is coming near (or has passed) the point of prompting a thousand words, couched as concisely as I could, slainte!Robert

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  1. Teddy Buckner (jim at kashprod.com)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 17:32:14 +0200
From: <jim at kashprod.com>

I found, amongst my old slides, a nice shot of the front line of Teddy
Buckner's band that I took.  I think it is taken at a bowling alley night
club he played at after leaving the Beverly Caverns.early 1960's.  Couch
Roberts is on clarinet, Streamline Ewing on trombone, and Teddy's (forever)
bassist is in the photo (name escapes me at the moment!).
If anyone would like a digital copy, send me an email.  
Jim

   
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