<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_1516661738257_15176">There are tales of Harrysweets Edison reprimanding a junior for ignorance of the Great American Songbook... </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176">Any further reference to this should mention no names -- </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">although you can quote me as having been at the gig.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">There was absolutely no inkling in the audience that quite that was going on</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">Harrysweets managed to be off mike all the time he had his hand on the youngster's shoulder </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">the drummer had great ears and heard it</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">(this was also the only occasion I heard the man play without consistent swing)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">and he told some musicians and friends immediately afterwards (he was in quite a state)</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">It is true that the opening number the young man did not know was "Out of Nowhere"</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">Anyway at another gig another venue another year Harrysweets called his feature number as "Wave" </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">I've seen the same happen to (yes!) Hank Jones, </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">so it's no shame the celebrated pianist didn't have the right chords </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">He didn't have wrong chords either, </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">and there was no pause between the start of the performance and the piano entry</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">the only space was where Harrysweets was maybe on Hawaii</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">His accompanist was in a Holy Roller Chapel </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">Perhaps the music could be reconstituted as Hawaiileluya? </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1516661738257_15176" dir="ltr">Robert R. Calder </div></div></body></html>