Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2007/07

From: Bill <wde2@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Apologies re Midnight in Moscow
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:55:28 -0400

It looks like logic should have been followed instead of unverified
labelling regarding who played on the original Midnight in Moscow.
My copy (actually a download) has Kenny Ball, Chris Barber, and Acker
Bilk as the players, but while they still play together, that just
doesn't sound like Bilk, and it doesn't make sense that only Ball
would get performance credit. Glenn Kantor noted that disparity, plus
that Bilk has/had his own band and would not logically play
uncredited, even in those early days. I still don't know for sure
who it was playing (maybe it was Dave Jones), but he was good.
Sorry for being misleading. Not to knock Acker Bilk, but it was such
a shock to me that he would have been playing like that that I
couldn't keep it to myself. Guess I should have, though.

Bill Edinger

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