<div dir="ltr"><div>Lucky you!</div><div>Bobby Hackett was wonderful, in particular on ballads. This is not to say he couldn't play hot - he probably could have blown most trumpeters off-stage, but there were very few who could meet his ballad playing.</div><div>You have mentioned the Dick Sudhalter band - could you provide the personnel? When the Sudhalter and Son LPs were originally issued I could not afford them, and have been looking for them ever since. When the GHB group acquired the 77 catalogue I was hoping for a reissue, but it turned out that those were not included in the deal.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Marek<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 14:17, Ken Mathieson <<a href="mailto:ken@kenmath.free-online.co.uk">ken@kenmath.free-online.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Robert et al,<br>
<br>
Robert mentions not seeing Bobby Hackett with Peter Ind in Glasgow's <br>
MacLellan Galleries. I was luckier: I got to play with him there, but <br>
not with the excellent bassist Peter Ind. Bobby had been booked to <br>
appear with Dick Sudhalter's excellent band (and Peter Ind may well have <br>
been the bassist in it) as well as Kenny Stewart's Trio, of which I was <br>
one-third in numbers but possibly two-thirds of its volume, had also <br>
been booked to open the show. Dick's band had travelled by train from <br>
London on same-day return-tickets, but someone had screwed up with the <br>
train times and they had to leave at the first interval to catch the <br>
return train to London. Eight to ten hours on a train to play for about <br>
45 minutes then get home about 2:00 in the morning - there's no business <br>
like show business indeed!<br>
<br>
And so it came to pass that Kenny's trio was asked if we'd mind backing <br>
Bobby for the second set (Bobby , as the undoubted star of the show, had <br>
flown up from London and was staying overnight with friends near <br>
Glasgow). We of course said something along the lines of "well OK, just <br>
this once" and sorted out a programme with him at the interval. He was <br>
utterly charming and supportive, but he was also very ill with severe <br>
diabetes, so the set consisted mainly of ballads. Needless to say his <br>
playing was gorgeous and tasteful and I played mainly brushes while <br>
marvelling at the quality of Bobby's tone and the subtlety of his <br>
phrasing. A few days later I bumped into a well-known Glasgow drummer <br>
noted for his loudness, technical prolixity and general bombast, who <br>
said it must have been hell playing a 50-minute set of ballads on <br>
brushes. However, I remember it as an honour and privilege to play a <br>
part in such wonderful music, and I really got the "less is more" <br>
message thanks to Bobby.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Ken<br>
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