tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post4126697829914277125..comments2024-03-27T22:41:44.357+00:00Comments on bebop spoken here: Bobby Carr Info wanted.Lancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-5515261884246082332010-08-21T16:42:34.451+01:002010-08-21T16:42:34.451+01:00Hi Lance, I knew Bobby Carr very well and did a fe...Hi Lance, I knew Bobby Carr very well and did a few gigs with him. He occasionally brought his trumpet to Greys Club and sat in with my band playing beautiful muted trumpet in the Latin numbers and then he would do one of his special solo numbers while wandering around the customer's tables serenading the ladies.<br />Wherever he played, in the break, Bobby always ordered two pints for Tommy Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00909079682453721810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-68338740205682831912010-08-19T04:28:59.720+01:002010-08-19T04:28:59.720+01:00Hi Lance,
What a wonderful trumpet player Bobby Ca...Hi Lance,<br />What a wonderful trumpet player Bobby Carr was, once again, Bobby in the hayday of The Wheatsheaf, New york, was a regular, once I asked him what he uses on his valves to keep them going, he opened his case and handed me a can of FLIT (Some sort of fly spray) and of corse in his case always had a bottle or two of Newcastle Brown Ale, like you Lance, I do remember him in the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-41138810924561136832010-07-28T13:33:09.395+01:002010-07-28T13:33:09.395+01:00To Steve Grant
I do have more info re Bobby Carr....To Steve Grant<br /><br />I do have more info re Bobby Carr. I knew him well in the mid 50s to 1962. Met him when he was touring with the Platters. Contact Lance for more info.<br />RAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-67041838431063242632010-05-09T23:08:42.787+01:002010-05-09T23:08:42.787+01:00My memories of Bobby are from Peter Gascoigne'...My memories of Bobby are from Peter Gascoigne's Vieux Carre sessions at The Golden Lion at Winlaton Mill in the late 70s.<br />They were very popular and the room would be packed. Sometimes he would come over and sit in. I particularly remember his 'Bunny Berrigan' styled version of 'I can't get started'. He had a magnificent tone, a natural lyricism and commanding stage Rolynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-16317392848686840002010-05-09T21:51:28.340+01:002010-05-09T21:51:28.340+01:00I knew and played, occasionally, with Bobby, who w...I knew and played, occasionally, with Bobby, who was a nice man, and a hell of a bebop trumpet player - streets ahead of anyone else around here at that time. Here's a story I got secondhand from the late Brian Fisher.<br />Bobby played pro, in his youth, for tenor player Johnny Gray's band in London. They were rehearsing a new number, and Johnny gave the trumpet solo to Bobby. Bobby gaveSteve Andrewsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-44289436657486782062010-05-09T06:35:56.536+01:002010-05-09T06:35:56.536+01:00Whoops! I got the breweries the wrong way round! S...Whoops! I got the breweries the wrong way round! Substitute Double Maxim for Brown Ale<br />I remember him at the Hoffbrau House - think George Laing was in that band - come in George.<br />I seem to recall the band wearing Leiden-hose - now someone must have a photo of that!Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-34812057205786950392010-05-09T00:02:16.451+01:002010-05-09T00:02:16.451+01:00Lance,
Thank you for your reply and recollection o...Lance,<br />Thank you for your reply and recollection of Bobby Carr. As I said I knew him through his son James who I went to school with. I also knew him as a friend of my Grandfather who was very active also on the working mens club scene. His name was Freddie Miller and as well as working as a singer and comedian he ran a club booking agency in North Shields called Wandafield. I am sure some stevegrantleeukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17855490195901178134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2890708154880054256.post-68245123905312719692010-05-08T20:39:58.329+01:002010-05-08T20:39:58.329+01:00I'm surprised I haven't had a wadge of peo...I'm surprised I haven't had a wadge of people replying to this post. Indeed I'm disappointed as Bobby Carr was a larger than life trumpet legend and a pivotal figure on the north-east jazz, dance band, club scene for many years. <br />My connection with Bobby Carr was when we were both part of the Newcastle Big Band's legendary Sunday morning sessions at Newcastle's then Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04494856116843281101noreply@blogger.com