<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_5774">Mundell Lowe! </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_5776"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_5806" dir="ltr">I knew the name well enough, and when I learned he was coming to Scotland... </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6016" dir="ltr">the date loomed up, and I would be out of the country at the time </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6011" dir="ltr">and then the next time I saw the name he was coming to Germany ... </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6264" dir="ltr">when I was going to be back in Scotland. </div><div dir="ltr">On the years which followed it was Herb Ellis I missed . . . </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">but I did see Herb a few times, and the tale of the young man sobbing inconsolably in the toilet </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6266" dir="ltr">(before Herb had struck up the poor young guy thought he was himself a guitarist) </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6268" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I did my best to encourage friends and persons likely to be interested to go see and hear Mundell </div><div dir="ltr">(rang friends from the Swiss Border, through Franconia and the Ruhr)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6284" dir="ltr">so I hope somebody went. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6270" dir="ltr">Where Norman has been remembering Mundell I've been writing about my friend Ian Begg, </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6286" dir="ltr">a prominent Scottish architect only a couple of years younger than Mundell who used to frequent Nick's</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6272" dir="ltr">in the early 1940s when a deckhand on wartime convoys. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6288" dir="ltr">Muggsy, Pee Wee, and since they headed on up the street and into a studio to reprise the evening's set for broadcast ...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6290" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6274" dir="ltr">Well, one thing my late friend did observe about the music, other than its quality </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6276" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6292" dir="ltr">It was not LOUD. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6294" dir="ltr">AMEN.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6278" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1512505815703_6296" dir="ltr">Robert R. Calder </div></div></body></html>