[78-L] Al Klink-Eddie Condon's

[Royal Pemberton]

Sometimes I wonder, in thinking about it, if part of what perpetuated
Glenn Miller's music over those of his contemporaries lay in the
mystery surrounding his death in an airplane crash back in 1944?

I remember a chat I had with my mother about 10 years ago (she was
born in 1923) about Miller's music.  She didn't care anything about it
after all those years; actually she'd been burnt out on it for
decades.   She said sure, Miller was good back in the day but so were
others like Shaw, Herman, Goodman, Basie, and such like.   And their
music got better as time went on, even as it got harder to find.  And
still the old Miller stuff hung on, and on, and on....same old same
old.  (Yawn.)   She was tired of it well before 1950.

About the nearest parallel to this in anyone in more recent times, I'd
think, would be Elvis.  If he hadn't died how and when he did, would
he still be so big, and so hailed as a kind of god all these years
later?

On 4/7/09, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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> That was his point,  but he did say "died" at least in the account I read.
> I love the Miller sound and have never quite understood why so many
> musicians disliked it and do so to this day.  It's not as if many other
> bands didn't use formulas.
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> Taylor
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> Try playing that sound 4 hours a night, six nights a week. And, wait, you're
> a jazz tenor player who might get two eight-bar solos per night,
> meanwhile you gotta listen to Tex Beneke play his yakkity sax all damn'
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> David Diehl
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> But if you're a "jazz tenor player" what the devil are you doing working
> steady with a "sweet band?"
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>> Presume you mean "and his music did".
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>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> I heard Al Klink twice in NY in the early 90s at the St. Regis with Joe
>>> Bushkin...still playing great stuff (as was Joe,  one of my all-time
>>> faves).
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>>> Klink was also famously quoted as saying "It's too bad Glenn Miller
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>>> live and his music died."
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