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To: jessduntno
Extra points if you ever heard or saw Bob Cooper playing jazz oboe...

No, although I've seen just about everything that can appear with a symphony orchestra except that! Did he come to LA in the 1980/90s?

19 posted on 12/18/2009 10:46:05 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: paulycy

“No, although I’ve seen just about everything that can appear with a symphony orchestra except that! Did he come to LA in the 1980/90s?”

I’m dating myself - he used to play in the LA area in the 60’s and 70’s - one of the great West Coast players, mostly known as a Tenor Player, with Stan Kenton and all the others who could get him, (the Great Ones). He had his own group, but also played house band at Shelley Manne’s and The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach - the cool divey one, not the shiny new one - they used to put red flags on the table there for us, because the young guys like us who went to hear the bands then were under age...it was magic...small room (reminiscent of Lenny’s in Boston) and they had EVERYONE there...he was still playing through his eighties, though...you may have seen him around LA...Supersax, rehearsal bands and always around Local 47 (where I used to hang and listen to Q’s rehearsal bands) just a great, great jazz guy...


20 posted on 12/18/2009 11:10:29 AM PST by jessduntno ("The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.")
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To: paulycy
As far as oboists go, after all these years, Ray Still impresses me.

≤}B^)

27 posted on 12/18/2009 1:31:14 PM PST by Erasmus (She was a BBC newsreader, marrying above her station.)
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