[TPIN] Freddie Keppard Anecdote (Was Re: OT: Unlucrative (?!)enterprises)

[Glenn Bengry]

Wilmer,


       Just making light of it.  My life is lame enough right now  that I 
take my levity any way I can get it.  I take the history seriously too.  I 
just don't pretend to know all of it.  But I'm learning.  That's one of the 
reasons I came out to NY to spend some time with the Wiseone and the Wild 
one.  I guess Joe Wilder doesn't exactly fit the Wild One but it was a good 
play on words.   Speaking of whom.  Has anyone ever talked about Joe on this 
list?  When I get it together some more we can talk about Billy Horner and 
all that goes with it.


Glenn

PS  Did you ever see Joe's pictures?


>From: Wilmer Wise <wiseone2 at verizon.net>
>To: "Glenn Bengry" <soundpretty at hotmail.com>
>CC: RickTrumpetMan at aol.com, pdhuse at mirapoint.com, tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
>Subject: Re: [TPIN] Freddie Keppard Anecdote (Was Re: OT: Unlucrative 
>(?!)enterprises)
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:25:35 -0400
>
>I think you mean Buddy Bolden :-} You have to get to know the guys  from 
>the Fertile Crescent, there is a very strong oral history  tradition there. 
>I heard one of the New Orleans musicians whistle  what he said was a Buddy 
>Bolden solo. They are serious about their  history. Don't scoff.
>Wilmer
>On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Glenn Bengry wrote:
>
>>Hey Rick,
>>
>>
>>      According to the Ken Burns documentary on Jazz
>>Wynton knows what fingerings Freddie used and knows how he sounded  too 
>>even though he wasn't there and there are no recordings or  videotape.  So 
>>Freddie was just wasting his time with the  handkerchief.
>

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