[78-L] Kenny Hagood [was Pee Wee Marquette]

[Steven C. Barr]

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> From: "Geoffrey Wheeler" <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:02 AM
> Subject: [78-L] Kenny Hagood [was Pee Wee Marquette]
> Julian Vein says: “Kenny "Pancho" Hagood I'm even more familiar with--I
> spoke to him in
> Paris in 1960. He was depping for an indisposed Stephane Grappelli at
> the Chat Qui Peche.”
> From mid-December 1962 to early March 1963, I lived in Paris near Le
> Chat Qui Peche. I don”t recall ever going in the place. I did go to the
> Blue Note several times to hear Kenny Clarke’s group. I remember once
> leaving the club late at night and encountering bone-chilling weather,
> as can happen in cities with large rivers. I stayed in cheap hotels
> that allowed only stays of about a week. I would then transfer to
> another nearby cheap hotel. When that stay ended, I would return to the
> first hotel. To celebrate Christmas, I bought a small tree from a
> seller on Isle de la Cite´near Notre Dame and set it up in my hotel
> room. In addition to general bathrooms on each floor, there were
> urinals located in the middle of each flight of stairs. A curved metal
> sliding door opened onto the cramped space. One would step in and slide
> the door closed. It was like being in a tiny oubliette.
==
> Sounds like a luxury toilet. In those years I had to put up with the hole 
> in
> the ground, the chain to hold yourself upwith (suspension design)
> and the two concrete footprints on the floor so that you knew exactly 
> where
> to put your wet shoes.
> And of course the old lady in her chair, watching you.
> Un autre bier sil vous plais.
>
The French realized that the consumption of beverages created an inevitable
need...and thus invented "Pissoirs" which were located wherever the need
thereof became apparent...?!

The North American equivalent would seem to be finding a large and dense
tree...and positioning oneself therebehind...?!

Having served in the USAF in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, I quickly
became accustomed to the idea that when one consumes beer, there is an
inevitable result! In Germany, one simply stepped up to the nearest 
wall...?!

This is technically illegal; however, I have yet to be arrested 
therefor...?!

Steven C. Barr