[78-L] 10 reasons to love Joe Haymes

[simmonssomer]

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From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: [78-L] 10 reasons to love Joe Haymes


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>> Oh, that Julian Vein, he doesn't like Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Rushing and
>> Frank Sinatra. But even that doesn't manage to rile anyone.
>>
>>      Julian (the only one in step) Vein
>
>
> No...it's that you don't like Joe Haymes which makes people want to hunt 
> you
> down like some wild beast!
>
> Which leads me to ask this,  Julian.  The sound and personnel of the 
> Haymes
> band on record changed quite a bit from 1932 to 1937...is there anything 
> of
> the Haymes era which you dislike less,  or have you damned it all in one
> swell foop?
>
> Here are my fave Haymes sides:
>
> Oh! Leo (Bud Freeman all over it)
> Truckin' (Bose)
> Sittin' on the Moon
> River Man
> Organ Grinder's Swing
> It's All Forgotten Now (nice vocal by bassist Gene Traxler)
> Gotta Go! (ARC version...great arrangement)
> Happy As The Day Is Long
> Wild Honey (really nice Freeman solo)
> Papa Tree Top Tall
>
>
> Taylor
>
Take a look at the personnel of the first Tommy Dorsey band after the split 
with his brother. Then compare it
with the  personnel in the last Haymes Orchestra.-l

Al S.