Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 1998/05

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: The Benny Goodman Story, and an Artie Shaw
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 20:15:44 -0400

At 06:10 PM 5/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>If you are interested in a good book about musicians of this era, Mel Torme's
>biography about Buddy Rich is excellent reading. It really gives insight
into
>the lives of these musicians. I think the title is something like "Traps:
the
>drum wonder". Buddy Rich was no angel either (a brain tumor might have
>contributed to his erratic behavior) but he had incredibly high standards
when it
>came to music and music performances. Sure he had to live, but never
sacrificed
>his music for the sake of commercialism. Many, many musicians are
mentioned in
>this book. Mel is an excellent writer!

Not to mention he could take even a so-so song like "Games People Play" and
turn it into an art song. The man's a genius, apart from that hideous
sobriquet, "The Velvet Fog."

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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