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<p>Hi Marek,</p>
<p>I've got hazy recall of the Sudhalter band that night, but I know
Susanah McCorkle was the singer and obviously Dick was on cornet
or tpt and I've a suspicion that the drummer was "Fat" John Cox.
The others have receded into the mists of time and may well have
included Peter Ind on bass (they were only in the hall for just
over an hour before vanishing into the night). Sorry I can't be of
more help, beyond saying it was a very important night in my
alleged career: playing very slow ballads is an art for everyone
in the band and keeping the time together at extremes of tempo is
crucial and much harder the slower they are. Also, because Bobby
wasn't well and couldn't blow hard, I played brushes on the few
up-tempo pieces too and thoroughly enjoyed myself: there's a knack
in swinging hard on brushes as it's a very different technique and
feel from playing with sticks, but it can swing just as hard in
its own different way.</p>
<p>Tìoraidh! (Scots Gaelic for 'cheerio' and pronounced 'cheery')<br>
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<p>Ken <br>
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 14:17,
Ken Mathieson <<a
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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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