Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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English teenagers mobbed him, trying to touch him, to see his face, to hear his voice. He played before packed concert halls, mesmerizing huge audiences with the simple, lyrical beauty of his horn, receiving wildly enthusiastic ovations at the end of each number. What was the magic of this frail little black man from the back streets of New Orleans? What was there in his music that spoke its message to the hearts of these Englishmen, Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Japanese as it had spoken to his own people for almost 50 years...
...play jazz now, hear? Don't you play no rock and roll." He put it together and blew one of his lyrical phrases. "Reed's too hard for a beginner. Get yourself a soft reed. You get a reed you can play, then you get on the streetcar and come by my house. I'll learn you a few little things to help...
...real sorry to hear that. I been with that old man a long time," he sighed, "a long time...
...George, did you ever hear Bunk play much before...
George looked up suddenly. "Hear him? I was playin' with Bunk the night Evan Thomas got killed. That was the last job Bunk ever played until we made those records," George paused and gazed at the ceiling for a minute or so. The years were peeling back in his memory as he went back to a scene that took place more than 30 years ago. It was as vivid to him then as the night it happened. "It was during the depression. Let me see, it was nineteen and thirty . . . two. I was workin' with Evan Thomas in Crowley, Louisiana...