<div dir="ltr"><div>The original posting brought no replies. Perhaps now I'll have better luck.<br></div>Cheers<br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Marek Boym</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com">marekboym@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: 24 April 2016 at 20:01<br>Subject: Whatever happened to Brooks Kerr<br>To: <a href="mailto:Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com">Dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Many years ago, sometime in the '70's of the previous century, I went to hear a young (then) blind American pianist, Brooks Kerr, at the Tel-<span id="m_376058410814351659:1r1.2">Aviv</span> Museum. I had previously read about him in Down Beat, so I alerted my friends of his appearing in Israel. Although all references to Brooks Kerr mention <span id="m_376058410814351659:1r1.4">Ellingtonian</span> associates, in Israel his <span id="m_376058410814351659:1r1.5">accompanists</span> were Al Morgan on bass and Panama Francis on drums (we later took Mr. Francis to a bar where an Israeli jazz group was playing; the others preferred to retire to their hotel).<br></div>I bought the first - and only - Kerr LP I saw, The Soda Fountain Rag apparently recorded in 1975. <br></div>Anyway, after the '70's he seemed to have disappeared. Any idea of his whereabouts? Is he still playing?<br></div>Cheers<br></div>
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