<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5571"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5791">I have no plans, and no time, to write a book about Steve Voce, or the several others I regard as having been my teachers in jazz -- I am working on a book about one of my academic teachers, the gentleman who noticed the number of ladies of a certain veteran vintage at Stephan Grappelli's final concert in Scotland and made a less gentlemanly-sounding reference to Grappelli-groupies in the Festival Theatre. He is no longer with us. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5886" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5791">I hope Steve is, both in continuing to draw and not to waste breath, and also as a member of this group. <br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5978" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5791">In the latter case, if he is not, why not? </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5980" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5791">A mistake I presume.<br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5791">Viva Voce!</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5791">Robert R. Calder </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5750" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5958" class="yahoo_quoted"> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5957" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5956" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5955" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5954" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5953" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5952"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5951" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Steve Voce <stevevoce@virginmedia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> serapion@btinternet.com; dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 9 April 2016, 9:10<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5960"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5959" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Gone<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460195296376_5977" class="y_msg_container"><br>Hello Robert,<br>A very stern message advises me that I have been chopped off from the group. Would you be kind enough to sew me back on?<br>Many thanks,<br>Steve<br><br>Sent from my iPad<br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></div></body></html>