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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Armstrong also admired B.A. Rolfe’s high note work. Rolfe was a child star on cornet, and as an adult, ran a (silent) movie company** before returning to music. He recorded into the electric era, including some nice things on electrically recorded Edison Diamond Disc. He spent the last ten years of his life in his (second) wife’s home town, Mansfield MA, where he is buried in Springbrook cemetery. He and his wife are in her family plot in (alas) unmarked graves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron L’Herault<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>** He made the Houdini movies. One of the actresses in one of the serials would later become his wife.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bert [mailto:mister_bertje@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 29, 2018 4:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ron<br><b>Cc:</b> Dixieland Jazz Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dixielandjazz] Wild Bill Davison<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello Charles,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Yes, it is quite well possible, since Panico once outplayed Armstrong in a jam session. (Armstrong was the first to admit that)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>That was without a doubt very early in the 1920's. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>If you really listen with an open ear, you can hear that Panico had a flawless technique. Armstrong didn't possess that yeat at the time. Esp. listen to the early hot fives, 1925/26 , Armstrong is allready very advanced in his ideas, but his technique is not always up to what he wants to play yet. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>And musicians, esp. brass players often are very much impressed with clean technique. Lead trumpet players: "You, as as good as your last high note". <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>It is an obsession, but Armstrong himself mentioned being very much impressed by Panico, and they were lifelong friends. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Panico also wrote a book, very early: </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>The Novelty Cornetist, which young upcoming musicians just may have studied. </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Sure, both Armstrong and Bix took the jazz solo much further, but that should not necessarily mean that people could not find inspiration in other values that Panico did posses. Also bear in mind that Armstrong (and Hawkins) were very fond of opera records, and Bix went to concerts of symphony ochestra's, and asked their trumpet player for lessons, since he wanted to improve his technique. But after one lesson the symphony player refused, with the explanation: you are so naturally talented, don't change anything, which Bix could not understand and made him very sad at the moment. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Influences and inspiration can be way more complex than what is taught these days. Jazz history classes are so much symplified, that they sometimes nearly become a joke. Of course , there is a general outline, but reality is, that it all was way more complex than the eye meets at first glance. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Very kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Bert<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>F</span></b> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> Bill (Davison) was his own man who came up listening to Louis (as 'they' all did), Bix and Louis Panico.<br><br>Thus is the first time I've seen Louis Panico named in the same sentence with Armstrong and Bix. Can he really have been much of an influence on Wild Bill and his generation? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>