<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My late friend Ian Begg, mention of whose presence at Evan Christopher's gig in Plockton in the Scottish wets Highlands amazed and charmed Evan (Ian was almost 90 at the time and had memories of attending Nick's in New York while a teenager on wartime duties), was intrigued when I mentioned a radio interview with Sandy Brown -- in which Sandy reported that Tony Scott was the LOUDEST clarinettist (further comment on Tony declined).. Ian remembered the considerable volume Sandy was capable of... </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">All of the few times on which I saw Tony was during the 1987 Edinburgh Jazz Festival, where he attended but did not perform in the course of the Bob Wilber Usher Hall </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">dry-run for the 50 years since Carenegie Hall at Carnegie Hall... </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">But Bob has now departed too, I see,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">doubtless impoverishing the rotarians of Chipping Camden, membership of which organisation he liked to cite as a mark of how thoroughly integrated he was into England. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Chipping Camden's loss is the world's --</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">and Bob's wife Joanne's, who graced the Edinburgh concert visually when Jack Parnell had taken over the drumming, by outdancing with Oliver Jackson any of those imitation marionettes on that British TV series with STRICTLY in the title -- presumably it was for some advice that Oliver during the interval had gone to the adjacent hostelry with Tony Scott, arm in arm? </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Here's to the lot of them, and given the low temperature many thanks for the link to Autumn Leaves, definitely a large, early and welcome bonfire!!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">warm greetings, </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Robert R. 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