[Dixielandjazz] More on Benny Carter

[Robert Loomis]

Ken, I wonder if you would object if I share this reminiscence on my
Facebook page (along with vids or sound tracks of Benny and Sarah) at some
point soon. I love his playing and I think Sarah Vaughn is my all-time
favorite singer. Thanks for sharing memories! Would love to read more!

Cheers,
Bob Loomis
Concord CA

Ken Mathieson wrote:
> Following on from my post of 13th Nov about Benny Carter's important
> role in the merger of segregated musicians' unions in LA and Bert's post
> on the 14th about Coleman Hawkins and Carter in Netherlands in the 1930s
> and Norman's apprciative off-line mail about these posts, I thought I
> should share some of my experiences of knowing Benny with he wider
> group. For a musician who was so highly respected in his lifetime that
> everybody in the jazz business referred to him as "the King", it seems
> astonishing that his name is rarely heard nowadays.(Snip)
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/attachments/20191117/cc0dc3f6/attachment.html>