[78-L] NIXON LAWYER LEONARD GARMENT OBIT

[David Lennick]

As Dave Burnham has noted, DiNovi is still active in and around Toronto. Nice 
guy. He must have been 17 or 18 on those airchecks.

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On 7/16/2013 8:02 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> Jerome became a producer for Decca Records. I met him in 1979, when my
> mentor was producing a demo of a singer and he kindly offered some
> direction, in effect co-producing it. It was great to watch him work.
>
> Regarding DiNovi, there was an album for Roulette Records called
> Scandinavian Suite from 1958 that was reissued on CD that I have. Really
> beautiful music. Gene Lees told me that he became an orchestrator in
> addition to his piano work.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Dan Van Landingham<
> danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> Tiny Kahn died of a heart attack at 29 in 1953.He had worked with Auld in
>> the '40s.DiNovi played great piano from what little I've heard of him.
>> On Mon, 7/15/13, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>  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, 8:47 PM
>>
>>   Gene DiNovi is still very active;  I
>>   work with him almost every summer at a Festival in Parry
>>   Sound, ON.
>>
>>   db
>>
>>
>>
>>   >________________________________
>>   >  From: Dan Van Landingham<danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
>>   >To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>
>>   >Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 8:48:02 PM
>>   >Subject: Re: [78-L] NIXON LAWYER LEONARD GARMENT OBIT
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >
>>   >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.