<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Steve Voce <<a href="mailto:stevevoce@virginmedia.com" class="">stevevoce@virginmedia.com</a>> wrote:<div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">You shouldn't leave out the great Archie Semple, and Acker Bilk was ten times the jazz musician your pal Cy Laurie was! Not to mention any of the fine modern clarinettists or the extremely skilled Sid Phillips. There are many more in your field, of course, who it would pain to omit - Christie, Turner, the ci-devant Danny Polo....</p></div></div></blockquote>Dear Steve,</div><div class="">Danny Polo?</div><div class="">Born in Clinton, Indiana, died in Chicago, Illinois (1901-1949) and worked and recorded in England in the 1930s.</div><div class="">Why include him on a list of British jazz revival clarinettists?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And why single out Cy Laurie for unnecessary insult? </div><div class="">("Cy Laurie, on the other hand, was a nutter who genuinely believed that he was the reincarnation of Johnny Dodds. He might have got away with that if he had been as good as Johnny Dodds, but unfortunately he was only as good as Cy Laurie.”) </div><div class="">Cy was a very popular Trad jazz pioneer who contributed to its success, inspired and captivated by Johnny Dodds’ playing.</div><div class="">I found Cy to be a passionate and friendly jazzman, and felt privileged to play with him and pianist Johnny Parker on several of my visits to Pomgolia. </div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class="">But don't let us start making lists again. It's non-productive, like stamp collecting.<br class=""></p></div></div></blockquote><div class="">In that, I wholehearted agree with you.</div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Bill.</div></div></body></html>