Harry´s Blog

I had the honor
of playing with Connie and Sam.
Connie sings the lyrics
as if they were her story,
and sometimes they are.
When you hear her sing
I Fall in Love too Easily ,
she makes you think
that it could be her story.
“I fall in love too easily
I fall in love too fast
I fall in love too terribly hard
For love […]

Herbert Kuhner
from Swing Man and Women
Louis
Louis played a fine Dixie horn
then he went on to swing
and he swung.
And what’s more,
Sing, Sing, Sing
is to his credit,
as well as other tunes
like Robin Hood
and Oh Babe.
Whenever and whatever Louis played,
he played pretty for the people.
This Louis,
like his namesake,
was good at scat
and got his act going
and went on to […]

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Louie Bellson died on February 14th.
A great drummer has left us.
Here’ something I wrote about Louie.
Look! No Hands!
Two is better than one,
and that goes for bass drums.
Now there are double bass drum peddles
for one drum
so that you can use the hi-hat as well,
while you’re at it.
Ray McKinley started using two in ‘41.
That went almost unnoticed.
Louie […]

Nat Hentoff

From Swing Men and Women by Herbert Kuhner
You could call Nat Hentoff,
the Dean of jazz critics.
I’ve already expressed my
admiration for him.
Nat has always been politically minded
and he certainly knows how to write
a political sentence,
as well as a sentence about music.
Nat is now “pro-life.”
He’s opposed to,
what some refer to
as murder before birth.
Abortion is not exactly
a […]