[78-L] "Mystery" Country Record

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Dec 12 09:10:24 PST 2010


Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Good point about the often misplaced assumptions about who influenced whom.
> 
> Many seem to cling to the fantasy that Lester Young was being funny  or 
> oblique when he spoke in an interview of being influenced by both Trumbauer 
> and Jimmy Dorsey...I never thought so.  Nor do I think Ella Fitzgerald was 
> trying to be sarcastic when she said that her first big influence was Connee 
> Boswell.
> 
>
> Taylor
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Miles Davis remained admiring of Bobby Hackett to the end of his life.

      Julian Vein


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