[78-L] What Happens to Old-Timers? A 1935 article

[Taylor Bowie]

> Confrey may not have stayed with Vallee for very long, which is why his
> occupancy of the piano chair is generally unknown to most of us. I've
> explored this issue on other lists; musicians say that they played with a
> particular band, and no one can verify it. One musician claiming he played
> for Stan Kenton was a seventeen year old at the time; one of the trumpet
> players became ill during the last set of the evening, and this guy sat in
> for the last three arrangements of the set. The next day, the original
> trumpet player was back in the section. There are hundreds of instances
> like this.
>
> Jeff Sultanof


Good point,  Jeff.  My own dad once played second tenor with the Henry King 
band for a month when they went on a series of one-nighters in the Pacific 
Northwest...I doubt there is much or any record of that fact whiich has 
survived.

Taylor