[78-L] Lombardo

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> No...I think Steve actually did err...my statement  was that Lombardo was
> just as "locked in" to his style in 1930 as he was at any other point in 
> his
> career.  My second point was that,  regardless of the Lombardo conventions
> which he employed for more than 50 years,  he was capable of playing some
> pretty great music.
> I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear in the earlier post.  If I'm
> mistaken about Steve's statement,  let's hear from him about it.
>
Okeh...what I MEANT was this! Lombardo (and later Garber) did use the style
from c. 1927 onward...but at that time it was different from the usual 
dance-band
format. It didn't become "boring and constant" until around the late 
thirties or
early forties (around the same time that Garber relentlessly copied it)...!
I happen to like Lombardo (and can sing in Carmen's style as well!).

Steven C. Barr