[78-L] Monty Sunshine RIP

[Julian Vein]

Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> I was more into Swing.In fact,when I got into it the "British Invasion" was 
> going on.This was back
> in 1965.That whole scene meant nothing to me musically and I didn't hide it-to 
> me,the British Inv-
> asion was musically backwards.If this sounds suddenly off the subject,It's not:I 
> rediscovered the 
> 
> Big Band Era by way of trumpeter Bunny Berigan.and I had already done the '50s 
> Rock and Roll
> thing.I had heard the originals;the Stones and the Beatles did so-so copies that 
> left me cold.The
> Dave Clark Five was an exception because they rocked harder.I liked them.I had a 
> number of 
> 
> Eddie Condon LPs on American Columbia but the most recent find for me was an ABC 
> Param-
> ount LP showcasing the alto sax of Boyce Brown,who,from 1953 'til his death in 
> 1959,served as
> a Servite Order monk.He took the name of "Brother Matthew" which was how this LP 
> was issu-
> ed.Condon led the band and produced the album.He didn't play guitar on the 
> session.I had heard
> Boyce Brown some 30 years earlier via an MCA album that featured some cuts by 
> Jimmy McP-
> artland.Brown was VERY different:he and Bud Freeman had styles of their own that 
> seemed to
> show no influence of some of the black sax players of the time.In some circles 
> here,Condon is lo-
> oked down upon.He was a "major figure" during the so-called "Mouldy Fig-Be Bop" 
> "wars of
> the mid '40s.I've got a CD here of Coleman Hawkins from 1943 and he's playing 
> with Condon
> and,of all people,Woody Herman.Herman and Condon were not fans of each 
> other.Satchmo and
> Jack Teagarden were also in the band.This lineup was as strange as the lineups I 
> saw in Playboy
> Magazine's All Star bands of the early 1970s.Imagine Paul McCartney and Lionel 
> Hampton in the
> same band.They were.
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Dan, although your posts contain some interesting matter, the 
"stream-of-consciousness" style you adopt makes it difficult to follow 
what points you are trying to make. Additionally, for some technical 
reason, your posts are being broken up into short lines.

      Julian Vein