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Ricardo -> RE: John Marlow piece with Hauser guitar (Aug. 24 2016 18:49:53)
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH
Ricardo,
Back in the early 1980s in Washington, DC Charlie Byrd not only had his own club (I believe it was called "Charlie's,") but occasionally on Sunday afternoons he and his group would put on free concerts in Georgetown in the open area by the C & O Canal. At the time, I was assigned to the State Department, and my wife and I, along with friends, would go to Georgetown with a cooler and listen to the group. Did your father ever perform with Charlie Byrd on those Sunday afternoon gigs by the C & O Canal? They were really special, and we still remember them fondly.
Bill
Don't really know but probably not. Charlie was more a hardcore jazz and bossa guy. They came together as a group after their classical teacher, Sophocles Papas died, so it was certainly not Charlie's normal bag. He introduced arrangements of DJango famous type standards so that he could improvise short solos. Far as I remember only Jeff Meyrricks made an occasional improv solo next to Charlie, the other members stuck to the written parts.
Although my father was quite versitile and eclectic with his taste in music, he mainly performed with a trio of flute, cello and guitar that he created and made all arrangements for. Sadly they never recorded that music for commercial sale. In 2008 my father's student Phil Mathew got permission from my mother to record some of his stuff with his own similar group. I was unaware of that until his death in 2012 when I performed at a tribute concert for him and discovered his album there for sale with my dad's stuff in the track listing.
As far as nostalgia goes, Phil's recording takes me back more than the ACTUAL recording my father made with Charlie and the Quintet.
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