[Dixielandjazz] Murder She Wrote

[Marek Boym]

Hi Bob,
Maxim Soury was not a jazz musician.  Maxim Saury was a French traditional
clarinettist who passed away in 2012.
Cheers

On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 23:20, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:

> Derek Coller noted biographer, writer and jazz critic from the UK, Posed
> the following question. Anyone have an answer?
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> Bob Ringwald
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> MURDER, SHE WROTE
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>          Is this the time for a little light relief, before the Spring
> arrives?  A time to reveal my guilty secret?
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> The long-running television series, *Murder, She Wrote*, featured Angela
> Lansbury as mystery writer J.B. Fletcher, the greatest amateur detective
> since Agatha Christie's heyday. During 2019, repeats of the series were
> shown as I was settling down to my evening meal, with the result that I
> watched quite a few.
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>         During one such viewing I realized that some of the characters had
> names that sounded familiar.  My memory is that there were at least six
> such, all connected with the early Bob Crosby orchestra. I do recall Clark
> Randall, Sterling Bose and Kay Weber.
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> Subsequently there were five other episodes where I noted jazz
> connections. One had Edmond Hall and a detective Gowans, another was set in
> Paris, with Hughes Panassie, Violet Bechet, Maxim Soury (not Saury!), Lu
> Watters, Eva Taylor and Peter Appleyard.
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> One episode with a baseball background included Harry Dial, Pete Briggs,
> Al Sidell, Flip Phillips, and bandleaders Freddie Masters and Mike Warlop.
> Another repeated these same names, except for Johnny Eaton instead of
> Michael (Mike) Warlop. There was also a story set in New Orleans, involving
> jazz musicians, though I failed to spot any familiar names.
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> A quick check via Google found that *Murder, She Wrote* ran for 264
> episodes between 1984 and 1996. There is a rather long list of all the
> actors who participated, with their photographs, and their character names.
> A short sampling revealed a few more examples - Frances Hunt, Boyce Brown,
> Larry Shields, Kim (!) Bechet, and Detective Bess Stacy!
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> Credits are usually difficult to read as they unscroll, but the story
> editor is generally one Robert Swanson. So the mystery here is, was Mr.
> Swanson the guilty party? Was he the enthusiast who influenced the writers
> or was there a secret jazz collector hidden among them? Who can unmask the
> culprit? Can we put J.B. Fletcher on the case?
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> Derek Coller
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