Pt 6 with Doc and Alan at the Sherman Jazz Museum 4/12/2018

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Pt 7 with Doc and Alan at the Sherman Jazz Museum 4/12/2018

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Don Jacoby Stories of Ernest Williams

In March of 1985 I decided to video tape one of my previous trumpet teachers at his house in Denton.  It was on a Sunday morning, and I wanted him to tell me more about his early life and his career in general.  I taped about two hours worth of tape, and this segment talks about his time in the Ernest Williams School of Music.  Don (Jake) Jacoby would have been 64 at the time.

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Doc Severinsen playing Country music

I taped this off of the TV in the early 80’s and just now edited it to how I wanted it.  Some long time Severinsen fans have told me that they had never seen this number.  He does some amazing things here on trumpet that look easy, but aren’t.

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Pt. 5 Q&A with Doc and Alan at the Sherman Jazz Museum 4/12/2018

This part features Doc telling about hearing Ziggy Elman with the Tommy Dorsey band in 1941 playing “Well Git It”.  Before the opening intro of the tune ended Doc knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.  At the end of the video I included a video of Doc playing that very tune with the Tonight Show band years later.

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PT. 3 & 4 Q&A with Doc and Alan at the Sherman Jazz Museum in April 2018

 

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Pt. 1 & 2 of the Q&A session with Doc and Alan at the Sherman Jazz Museum in April, 2018

 

Here are some clips from the afternoon session at the museum with Doc Severinsen and Alan Baylock.

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More of the 4/12/2018 concert in Sherman

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The First Annual Jazz Classic

A few of us decided to have a small jazz festival in Sherman this year-2018.  We brought in the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band, and their director (Alan Baylock) suggested bringing in Doc Severinsen as the guest artist.  The concert was on April 12, 2018.  I have attached some Youtubes of the concert, and later I post Youtube of the Q&A session at the Sherman Jazz Museum that afternoon with Doc and Alan.  A film crew also arrived who were filming a documentary on Doc’s life, along with Doc’s daughter, Nancy.  I was honored to give Nancy and Doc a tour of the third floor of the museum, but unfortunately they didn’t have time to see the other half of the museum on the second floor.

It was a great start to what I hope to be an annual event in Sherman, which can showcase the museum, and a guest artist.

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Buck Clayton

A collector from Houston donated several cds, books, and records to our museum last year, and I found this track while going through some of the cds.  It’s a Buck Clayton CD with Jo Jones on drums, Milt Hinton on bass, and Joe Bushkin one piano.  The names in the rhythm section got my attention, so I gave it a listen. I love the energy the rhythm section puts out, and there is no doubt where the time is!  This was recorded around December of 1953.  This is also one of my favorite tunes, “After You’ve Gone”.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsByEAz3dUg

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