<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3050">The clarinetist referred to was Caughey Roberts,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3054">whose name was pronounced, I was told long ago, as if the GH was SH</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3055">and the O as in Cosh, Tosh, Bosh, Dosh, Posh or even Quash </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3448">(I list those words to try to squeeze out regional variants </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3446">and he was the man replaced by Earle Warren in Basie's band ... </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3422">Well, previous to working for Basie, Jimmy Rushing worked for Jelly Roll Morton ... </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3423">and for piano fanatics, there is about a half-hour of Jimmie (alternative spelling) playing piano as well as singing in the Ralph Gleason TV series, whose copyright owners have managed, with better success than people complaining about very nasty and violent things, to have YouTube pull it (somebody else then uploaded it). The DVD is recommended, like the solo Joe Sullivan, though it's possible Joe plays even better on the Muggsy Spanier item.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3776">Caughey was the young man who went West, Jimmie went mid-west.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3755">Another young man who went West was called Brooks, and played very well on Ory recordings and on film with Ory, and besides elsewhere his playing was mimed to by Cary Grant, when this particular Brooks was M.D. to Mae West, in a film in which the young C.G. asks "Hevnt you ever met a menn who could make you really heppy" (mixed regional variant, he meant happy"</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4100">Mae: Lotsa times. (no need to spell out what she meant!).</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4101">I gather from a Spanish friend that the aforementioned Brooks (recorded also with Paul Howard) has by dint of my mentioning these references been granted a proper place in the discography of stride pianists. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4372">I know of Streamline Ewing from his Earl Hines days. He also later recorded amazingly enough with John Lee Hooker!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4219">I'd be grateful for a copy of the photo, Jim. Your picture is coming near (or has passed) the point of prompting a thousand words, couched as concisely as I could, </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4280">slainte!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2883" dir="ltr"><span>Robert</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2838"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2842" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2841"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2840"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2839"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2862"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3056"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4112"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4111">From:</span></b> "dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com" <dixielandjazz-request@ml.islandnet.com><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4104"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4103">To:</span></b> serapion@btinternet.com <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2928"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2927">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 17:22<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3451"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_3450">Subject:</span></b> Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 185, Issue 17<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2843"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2872">Today's Topics:<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2875"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2876"> 1. Teddy Buckner (<a ymailto="mailto:jim@kashprod.com" href="mailto:jim@kashprod.com">jim@kashprod.com</a>)<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_2877">Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 17:32:14 +0200<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4095">From: <<a ymailto="mailto:jim@kashprod.com" href="mailto:jim@kashprod.com" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4409">jim@kashprod.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4071"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4066">I found, amongst my old slides, a nice shot of the front line of Teddy<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4065">Buckner's band that I took. I think it is taken at a bowling alley night<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4064">club he played at after leaving the Beverly Caverns.early 1960's. Couch<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4063">Roberts is on clarinet, Streamline Ewing on trombone, and Teddy's (forever)<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4062">bassist is in the photo (name escapes me at the moment!).<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4061">If anyone would like a digital copy, send me an email. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4058">Jim<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527618452066_4408"><br></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>