[78-L] NIXON LAWYER LEONARD GARMENT OBIT(Jack Eagle)

[Eric Goldberg]

Jack Eagle became a comic who you might remember from the Xerox commercials where he played Brother Domenick who looked towards the heavens and said "Thank God for Xerox". I played bass for him many times and he was a nice guy and still played the trumpet adequately. His son is the sportscaster Ian Eagle. 



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>  >
>  >I remember hearing about Garment via George T. Simon.I
>  remember Jack Eagle and Manny Fox from Georgie Auld's 1944
>  big band.Henry Jerome was a trumpeter who,according to
>  George T. Simon,played stiffly and rather sharp.I remember
>  Gene DiNovi from a short lived big band led by Chubby
>  Jackson that recorded for Co-
>  >lumbia in 1950.I believe Tiny Kahn was also the drummer
>  in that band.Jackson recorded four sides for them which were
>  released on French Columbia back in the 1970s.I have the
>  album here:I bought it in the early '80s in a drug store in
>  North Bend,Oregon.Is that CD available or is it out of
>  print?
>  >On Mon, 7/15/13, Roger Wade <rwade1947 at comcast.net>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  >Subject: Re: [78-L] NIXON LAWYER LEONARD GARMENT OBIT
>  >To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>  >Date: Monday, July 15, 2013, 7:03 PM
>  >
>  >No 78s but there is this CD:
>  >Love L-1002 [CD]
>  >
>  >The First Big Band To Ever Play Bebop : Henry Jerome
>  >Orchestra 1944-45 : Pers. prob. includes Jack Eagle,
>  Manny
>  >Fox (tp) Johnny Mandel (b-tp) Bill Vitale, Alan
>  Greenspan,
>  >Len Garment, Al Cohn (saxes) Gene di Novi (p) or Shorty
>  >Allen (p) Tiny Kahn (d)
>  >
>  >      Live radio air checks, 1944-45
>  >
>  >Vitalize
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Love L-1002 [CD]
>  >Tea for two (part 1)        -
>  >Brief news bulletin        -
>  >Tea for two (part 2)        -
>  >Eatonize        -
>  >It's a wonderful world        -
>  >Idaho        -
>  >Just you, just me        -
>  >I hear music        -
>  >I may be wrong        -
>  >Somebody loves me        -
>  >Blues on the double        -
>  >
>  >
>  >On Jul 15, 2013, at 7:57 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>  >
>  >> Just caught this on NBC-TV.  I am not familiar
>  >with this man’s music but some of you may know if he
>  made
>  >78’s.  NBC said he played with Alan Greenspan &
>  >Stan Getz.
>  >>
>  >> The following is from his obit at...
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/politics/leonard-garment-nixon-lawyer-and-watergate-figure-dies-at-89.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Mr. Garment had taken up the clarinet at age 13
>  and
>  >mastered the saxophone as well. As a young man he
>  played
>  >jazz gigs from Manhattan to the Catskills. For a time he
>  led
>  >his own nine-piece band, enjoying a posh life that
>  offered
>  >an escape from what he saw as the dreary confines of
>  >Brooklyn. He paid for part of his college education by
>  >playing tenor saxophone and clarinet in Woody
>  Herman’s
>  >band, and in Henry Jerome’s band he teamed with an
>  >aspiring young economist named Alan Greenspan, also on
>  >saxophone.
>