[TPIN] Black and white on the same band

[Leon Merian]

    For your info Phil, I was the first white to go  with black bands in the
history of jazz....
    I was 15 when I hoined the great Sabby Lewis band at the Savoy in Boston
with Big Nick on tenor, later replaced by
    Sonny Stits, Al Morgan on bass Joe Booker drums...and in 1942 joined
Lucky Millinder at the
    Savoy and the Apollo in NY after which we went on a long national tour.
I played with his band for quite a few years ...with the few breaks we had
in between tours I played withe Snub Mosely
   snd Eddie Barefield....a great septet....Its all in "The Man Behind The
Horn" my bio.

Regards, Leon Merian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Landsberg" <fivee at tx.rr.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Black and white on the same band


> The intention of this thread was to point out that early in the game, the
> 30's and into the 40's it just wasn't done.
>
> Phil Landsberg
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Cipriani" <lvcipriani at yahoo.com>
> To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 8:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Black and white on the same band
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>
> >
> > Maynard recorded with Clark Terry, Clifford Brown and Dinah Washington
> > on "Dinah Jams" in 1954.
> >
> > Also one of the early Maynard bands had a black drummer, I don't know
> > his name.  Anyone?  I saw him with Maynard on some youtube.com video
> > which I don't have a link to.
> >
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