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One More Thing for MATTHEW (EUGENE JACKSON)

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JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted)

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Date Posted: Sun, January 19 2020, 10:51:33
In reply to: Matthew 's message, "One More Thing" on Mon, January 06 2020, 10:11:05

http://www.lordheath.com/Eugene_Jackson.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-28-me-62611-story.html Eugene Jackson obit.

http://www.lordheath.com/Jimmy_Robinson.html.

While researching JIMMY ROBINSON for ANM, I "bumped into a mention of EUGENE JACKSON. The quote below (1999) is from WILLIAM "BILL" DOUGLASS who was well-known in Jazz circles as an excellent drummer. JIMMY and EUGENE were 5 or 6 years younger than he.

EUGENE's thumbnail bio at ANM doesn't mention his extensive experience as a Jazz saxophone player; his early part in the integration of the American Federation of Musicians (union); his broad experience in movies and TV; his experience as a comedian.

All of EUGENE's biographical information at ANM is correct so I saw no need to bring it up as JIMMY ROBINSON was the one needing correction and the info on EUGENE is "out there".

"Douglass

Oh, yeah. All the first jobs I played were just- I remember a lot of the older musicians- You know, we weren't always just playing together as kids, either. I'd sit at home and I'd practice. And then, it happened all the time, some older musician would be driving down the street and hear this going on and say, "That kid's got kind of a beat." Then he'd stop and meet me and so forth and so on.

I remember there was a guy named Waller. What was his name? It was a pianist whose name was Waller. Gus Waller, I believe was his name. Then there was another fellow who's a member of this union now, Eugene Jackson. You know, he's a child movie star from the Our Gang comedy days. Well, he's a saxophone player and a comedian on the side. He came by. Then there was another guy named Ted Cruise, who was a saxophone player. I mean, the guys, they got to know you. So they said, "We'll get this young kid. He keeps time." Oh, just about every Friday or Saturday one of them would come by. I had no car or anything like that. They'd come by and pick me up."

http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/viewFile.do?itemId=30101&fileSeq=8&xsl=http://oralhistory.library.ucla.edu/xslt/local/tei/xml/tei/stylesheet/xhtml2/tei.xsl#p150 1999 Bill Douglas interview.

https://wiki2.org/en/Bill_Douglass Biography at Wikipedia.

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