Three Wishes
Baroness Pannonica asked Ben Riley if granted what would be his three wishes and this is what he responded:
- “Just one wish, and I can do the rest. I want to do something I like to do. Not anything with money, like everyone else is doing. I would really like to feel good and not have to pay for it.”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Eddie Crocetti was born on June 25, 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland. His interest in music came when he heard a band perform in his father’s bar and he was drawn into the world of professional music. His father immediately purchased him his first set of drums and he began studying drums and piano. By the time he was 14 years old, he was playing professionally for the local musicians of the city. He went on to study the organ.
Eddie married at age 19 and began his family all while entertaining and delighting audiences with his own personal musical approach. For the past 25 years he has been playing alongside Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Ira Sullivan, Nat Adderley, Joe Venuti, Allen Harris, Toni Bishop, and more. Beyond jazz he has worked with Robert Goulet, Carole Lawrence, The Smother’s Brothers, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Platters, Fats Domino, Lucy Arnaz, Bill Cosby, Donald O’Connor, Patti Page and Julio Iglesias among others.
In 2001, Crocetti found his soulmate and formed the jazz group Perfect Fusion, which includes his new bride. This led to his release of a jazz organ recording. His wife lent vocals to one of his original works.
Organist Eddie Crocetti currently performs in jazz venues across the United States.
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CARL ALLEN QUARTET FEATURING STEVE NELSON
Carl Allen is an American jazz drummer and educator. Allen attended William Paterson University. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, including Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, George Coleman, Phil Woods, the Benny Green Trio and Rickie Lee Jones. It was with Green that Allen met bassist Christian McBride.
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THE WILLAMETTE JAZZ TRIO
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Ray Bauduc was born June 18, 1906 in New Orleans, Louisiana and was the son of cornetist Jules Bauduc, his older brother was a banjoist and bandleader, and his sister was a pianist. His youthful work in New Orleans included performing in the band of Johnny Bayersdorffer, and on radio broadcasts. His New Orleans origin instilled in him a love for two-beat drumming, which he retained when he played with Bob Crosby’s swing-era big band.
Moving to New York City in 1926 he joined Joe Venuti’s band. During the 1920s he recorded with the Original Memphis Five and the Scranton Sirens, which included Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. His time with the Bob Crosby Orchestra brought him national fame and Bauduc and bassist Bob Haggart composed two hits for the orchestra, South Rampart Street Parade and Big Noise from Winnetka, which has become a jazz standard.
After his discharge from the Army in 1944, he and former Crosby group leader Gil Rodin formed a short-lived big band. He toured with a septet in 1946 and also worked in Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra for a couple of months that year. By 1947, he joined Bob Crosby’s new group, then left to play with Jimmy Dorsey where he stayed for the next two years. He freelanced on the West Coast for a couple of years before joining Jack Teagarden in 1952. In 1955, he formed a band with Nappy Lamare which found considerable success, touring nationally and recording several albums.
From 1960 Ray went into semi-retirement and relocatred to Bellaire, Texas but visited New Orleans in 1983. He appeared occasionally at Crosby Orchestra reunions, worked with Pud Brown on several recordings, and played with the Market Square Jazz Band headed by James Weiler in the early 1980s in Houston.
A trend setter in traditional jazz circles, his precise, disciplined, yet fiery patterns and syncopated fills, helped New Orleans drummers make the transition into swing from the rigid, clipped progressions that had defined the previous era. His use of woodblocks, cowbells, China cymbals, and tom-toms distinguished him from most drummers of the swing era, and made him one of the few white drummers to be influenced by Warren ‘Baby’ Dodds. Drummer Ray Bauduc, who authored two books on drumming, transitioned in Houston, Texas, on January 8, 1988.
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