[Dixielandjazz] Cow-chi

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Caughey is an anglicised spelling of an Irish name, maybe the guy was called Coshie and nicknamed Couchy -- who knows? I was concerned to identify the name as written or printed, and identify the man. I relied on another printed source for my idea of the pronunciation. It hardly belittles the guy that he was replaced by Earle Warren in the Basie band. When the altoist Preston Love was interviewed -- he took on Earle Warren's chair when Earle was drafted -- he expressed shock that anyone would think he'd not vacate the chair for Earle's return. A very considerable musician, Earle Warren, and like his colleague Jack Washington he was praised to the skies by colleagues, and claims were made on behalf of both that they would have been better celebrated had Basie not oriented his band around the two tenors of Lester Young and Herschel Evans. During the few years Benny Waters was at his blazing best ("have you heard how much he plays?" Ram Ramirez asked, after they were both on a Harlem Jazz and Blues band recording) Earle Warren was one of only two musicians I heard match him with fire on the stand. The other one was George Chisholm, irked by having to match Benny's heat, which he did! What a memory!Robert R. Calder  

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Teddy Buckner clarinetist (Maurice Walker)

Having been in the audience for Teddy Buckner performances in the early sixties, I will say that when Teddy introduced his clarinet player, it sounded like "couchy" -- as in "that piece of furniture is certainly couch-y."  (Like "grouchy" and NOT like "touchy")
 
Maurie Walker
 
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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?
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