Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2017-08-24 19:17
Thanks, Dan - Another forum that I participate in is really good at posting such passings before the big sites catch up - so there's always the chance I missed something that others are aware of.
Clarineteer - Sorry, I didn't pay attention to clarinet brand...or if I did, I have since forgotten.
Seabreeze - I love your statement about Bob not being a doubler, that is so true! Also, thanks for the recommendation of the Chilton book. I'll have to get that. I have Bechet's autobiography - but like many of the old jazzmen autobiographies, it reads more like a fiction novel than a factual source (...have you read the Mezzrow autobiography? Hahaha!). Perhaps the Chilton book will provide the data I had been searching for when I read Bechet's autobiography.
"A Closer Walk" is definitely my favorite autobiography. It reads like a novel, but is believable. Seabreeze, you mentioned a possible ghost writer...was this common knowledge at the time? Charles Suhor indulged me a conversation in another forum, and had some interesting facts to share pertaining to personal interviews he had with Pete Fountain shortly after Pete's autobiography came out. I learned a couple of neat pieces of information from that interaction, which shed a slightly different light on a few topics from the book - and emphasized Pete's standing as an outstandingly great guy.
Warmest Regards,
Fuzzy
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