[TPIN] Black and white on the same band

[Michael Anderson]

Lots of great musicians broke the color barriers in times and places where
it was difficult.. Here are some good examples off the top of my head -

Red Rodney with Charlie Parker
The Benny Goodman Sextet at Carnegie Hall
Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden
Jim Chapin who played drums in NYC with all the great black BeBoppers
Miles and Gil Evans
Jimmie Rodgers - country superstar who used black musicians in the studio
and was one of the first white country artists to incorporate blues styles
into his music.
Booker T and the MG's, mixed-race backup band for all the great Stax Records
Soul singers like Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding

There are many more I'm sure.

MA

> From: Phil Landsberg <fivee at tx.rr.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:13:33 -0600
> To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Subject: [TPIN] Black and white on the same band
> 
> Lou Obergh has told me that in the early 40's he and Miles were in the Lucky
> Thompson band together.
> Lou is white.