Author: DougR
Date: 2013-03-27 16:58
As long as the thread is teetering on the edge of utter silliness, I might as well push it over the edge: Garth's comment about Benny's stinginess reminded me of this Zoot Sims story (taken from Bill Crow's wonderful book "Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around"):
The Goodman band was recording tracks for a movie, and Zoot recalled:
"We used to have a lunch break, and I brought this big, beautiful apple and put it on my stand. Benny had a habit of grabbing your cigarettes, or anything, and I saw him looking at that apple. I said, "Oh, oh. There goes my apple." I had a solo coming up. So Benny grabbed my apple, I stood up and took my solo, and it's the longest solo I ever had with Benny Goodman in my life. He kept signaling 'one more' until he finished the whole apple. Then he said, 'That's enough."
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