[Dixielandjazz] Bob Milke RIP - Muggsy Spanier Video

[Marek Boym]

Thank you, Bob.
Sounds good to my ears.  Better than most playing on the Coast at the
time.  I love Bob's playing - always have.  And his name sold me records.
Stay healthy, all of you!

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 23:09, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> Trombonist Bob Milke passed away last week. I believe he was 92 or so.
> Don’t have the details.
>
> Bob was one of the trombonists on the Bob Scobey, Clancy Hayes  recording
> of Of All The Wrongs You’ve Done.
>
> For many years he was the trombonist in the Oakland A’s Swingers band that
> played for all the Oakland A’s baseball games when Charlie Finley owned the
> team. They wore Oakland A’s uniforms and walked around the stadium playing
> in-between innings.
>
> Here is a link to a Muggsy Spanier video in which Milke is filling in for
> the regular trombone player. This was Bob’s first gig with Muggsy. his
> trombone player got ill and was not available for this TV show. this was
> around the same time Pops Foster had moved to San Francisco, I believe. on
> this TV show you can see the clarinetist kinda coaching Bob through the
> tunes. The show was called Jazz Casual. It obviously was recorded in the
> early days of TV.
>
> IMO the MC, Ralph Gleason, didn’t do a good interview at all. I got the
> impression that the musicians thought that Gleason was asking a lot of dumb
> questions.
>
> Musicians were: Muggsy Spanier tpt and leader, Darnell Howard CL, Bob
> Milke TBN, Joe Sullivan piano, Pops Foster bass, Earl Watkins drums.
>
> Enjoy.
>
>
> https://youtu.be/I31-stq7H6s
>
> Bob Ringwald
> Amateur (ham) Radio Station K6YBV
> www.ringwald.com
>
> Home schooling going well – two students suspended for fighting, one
> teacher fired for drinking on the job!
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