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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>To: Musicians and Jazzfans list; DJML<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Pensacola<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Re: Follow up to Steve Voce’s note re Eddie Condon Gang<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Voce wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:03:04 +0100<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: Steve Voce <<a href="mailto:stevevoce@virginmedia.com">stevevoce@virginmedia.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Eddie Condon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:b922c21e-95b2-2698-1b9e-c186e13344ba@virginmedia.com">b922c21e-95b2-2698-1b9e-c186e13344ba@virginmedia.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Some of the most rare jazz film you'll ever see is in Mosaic's 'Jazz Gazette' this week. During and after World War II there was a bi-monthly US news film called 'The March Of Time', which chose a different subject for each issue. On one occasion in 1946 the subject was Eddie Condon's club in New York. Alas, the film never survived.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>But some of the practice sequences shot at the time have just emerged, and Mosaic have put them up for us all to watch. The band is: Wild Bill, Brad Gowans, Tony Parenti, Gene Schroeder, Condon, Jack Lesberg and Dave Tough (the exact band that at that time recorded 'Improvisation For The March Of Time' and 'Farewell Blues' for Decca/Brunswick). This is I think the only film of Parenti, a fine clarinettist indeed, and the wonderful Brad Gowans, who plays a valide. This is a valve trombone with a slide, and it's fascinating to watch him switching from valves to slide. Don't miss this!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoPlainText style='border:none;padding:0in'>Steve Voce<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norman responds with own anecdote— Thanks to Steve Voce for his story about Eddie Condon and gang.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Of course, I never had a chance to meet cornetist Wild Bill Davison. But I had read about his escapades—with the music, women, and booze. I knew that he had been diagnosed as having an aortic aneurysm and that because of his age and poor health, the prognosis was grim. But it was decided that surgeons would try to repair the leaking aorta--- as the expression goes—chances slim to none. Davison apparently died on the operating table.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fast forward to the late 1990s. I was in Los Angeles for a jazz event. Milt Hinton was being honored for his many achievements—bassist, photographer and all around good guy. I was in company of jazz benefactor and author Floyd Levin who said he wanted to introduce me to the widow Davison. Anne Davison, fifth and last wife, had made it her career to travel with Bill and try to keep him out of trouble with women and minimize his drinking.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>She was an attractive woman in her 70s with gray hair and a black sheath dress with one string of pearls—fashionable wear. Floyd, using my title said, “Dr. Vickers, I want you to meet Anne Davison.” Mrs. Davison greeted me with a smile and said, “ The doctors killed my husband!” ( Wow! I’ve never been greeted like this before. How does one respond to that?) So, the best response I could come up with was, “ I’m sorry to hear that Mrs. Davison; I wasn’t there!” Then the group of us moved on to other topic and the rest of the evening went smoothly!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for listenin’!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Norman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>F.<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Norman</span> Vickers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>5429 Dynasty Drive<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pensacola, FL 32504-8583<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Home 850-484-9183; cell 850-324-5022<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jazz Society of Pensacola 850-433-8382<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.jazzpensacola.com/">www.jazzpensacola.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:nvickers1@cox.net">nvickers1@cox.net</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://jazzpensacola.com/vickers/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Member Jazz Journalists Association<span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>