[Dixielandjazz] Uncle Yoke's Black Dogs

[Marek Boym]

I don't know about the others, but, as I have already mentioned, Steve
Yocum moved to the Netherlands, where I heard him at more than one Breda
Ffstivals.  I heard Ed Metz there, too.
Cheers

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 14:47, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks Bill, those are indeed the guys I knew. We had a lot of fun
> together as there 7 of them and 9 in Fat Sam's Band, so after-gig
> *relaxation* was pretty boisterous.
>
> Talking of hard-swinging trumpet leads who were also strong soloists,is
> Bob Barnard still to the fore? I played with him a few times when he was
> booked for the Edinburgh Jazz Festival and he had those things in
> spades, but he also had eloquence when called for: a real jazzer and a
> team player with an unassuming good nature that made him a delight to
> work with.
>
> Regards to you and your Paisley Buddy buddy,
>
> Stay safe and well,
>
> Ken
>
> On 27/04/2020 00:58, Bill Haesler wrote:
> >> On 27 Apr 2020, at 7:45 AM, Ken Mathieson <
> ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote [in part]
> >> ...Drummer Ed Metz was (and still is) a knockout player and we became
> good buddies (indeed I'm still in occasional touch with him). They had an
> excellent hot trumpeter/cornetist whose name now escapes me, but he was a
> hard-swinging lead and a strong soloist...
> > Dear Ken,
> > On the 1989 cassettes I was referring to the band had:
> > David Jones (c ) Steve Yocum (tb,vcl) Jim Buchmann (cl,sop,bassax) Tom
> Hook (p,vcl) Bob Leary (bj,g) Dave Gannett (tu) Eddie Metz, Jr. (d,vcl)
> >
> > And I agree with you regarding the drummer and cornet player.
> > Kind regards,
> > Bill.
>
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