<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ken, I wonder if you would object if I share this reminiscence on my Facebook page (along with vids or sound tracks of Benny and Sarah) at some point soon. I love his playing and I think Sarah Vaughn is my all-time favorite singer. Thanks for sharing memories! Would love to read more!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Bob Loomis<br>Concord CA</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ken Mathieson wrote: <br>
Following on from my post of 13th Nov about Benny Carter's important <br>
role in the merger of segregated musicians' unions in LA and Bert's post <br>
on the 14th about Coleman Hawkins and Carter in Netherlands in the 1930s <br>
and Norman's apprciative off-line mail about these posts, I thought I <br>
should share some of my experiences of knowing Benny with he wider <br>
group. For a musician who was so highly respected in his lifetime that <br>
everybody in the jazz business referred to him as "the King", it seems <br>
astonishing that his name is rarely heard nowadays.(Snip)<br>
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