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Re: Buster Bailey

Author: John Morton
Date: 2016-11-24 03:00

I was in D.C. a few years back, and went looking for sheet music in the Library of Congress collections. I was excited to learn that the Kirby band book (or what was left of it) had been merged with the Benny Carter material and placed in the archive. I requested all the likely charts, but there were few arrangements and a lot of missing parts. But I was thrilled to see what looked like an original lead sheet in the beautiful hand of Charlie Shavers. I copied the parts for the Shaver tune Desert Night, but that's a later tune with no clarinet.

For those interested in the Kirby band, look up Don Byron's Bug Music album, for which he wrote some zippy arrangements of Kirby tunes.

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