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Re: Benny Goodman/Buddy Rich

Author: Wisco99
Date: 2015-03-27 19:10

Michael,
I'm sure there was competition between Maynard and Buddy at some level, but they both had great bands. Both bands had high trumpet parts, that is the nature of the music. When I was on Dave Stahl played lead, and he had the amazing ability to take the lead trumpet part up an octave for several measures and even do sixteenth notes accurately which I never heard anyone do. A good friend played lead trumpet for Kenton, and tells a story in the book about Kenton of getting up the next day and scraping the blood out of his mouthpiece from the night before. There was a famous battle of the bands at the Savoy ballroom in the mid 1930's between Benny Goodman and Chick Webb's band. Too bad those days are gone. It was a great era.

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