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FIRST-HAND: JACK ROTHSTEIN RECALLS LEE WILEY
I never knew that Lee was so overbearing [as described in CHICAGO JAZZ AND THEN SOME, the recent book of Jess Stacy’s memories] but was not surprised. After all, she had been a star in the late 20’s and early 30’s. She had had her own radio program and had been a headliner at the best supper clubs in New York but by the late 30’s she was considered a has-been. The only people in the business whose admiration for her singing never wavered were the Condon group. Her Rogers & Hart session with Bushkin, Freeman,etc. was for the Liberty Music Shop, not exactly a major label. She probably visualized Stacy as her ticket back to stardom.
I only saw her with the Stacy orchestra once, in the fall of 1945 at the Panther Room of the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. My only memory of that evening is that she sang IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON better than anyone I have ever heard, before or since.
The comments about her adultery seemed quite disingenuous. Well before Stacy, she had a reputation of only going to bed with guys she liked and that she didn’t have an enemy in the world. Her lovers allegedly included Bunny Berigan and Fats Waller.
The only time I met her was at a club in New York in 1952. She was sitting with a couple of musicians who invited me to their table. She impressed me as not being very bright but extremely honest. Her language was exceedingly vulgar, although not at all malicious.
(Postscript: nothing of Lee as overbearing or vulgar comes through in the 1945 recording of IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON, which has all of her inimitable tenderness, that sweet phrase-ending vibrato, and the improvisatory playfulness, as if she had learned a great deal from Berigan and Hackett in taking risks.)
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Tagged Bobby Hackett, Bud Freeman, Bunny Berigan, Eddie Condon, Fats Waller, Jack Rothstein, Jazz Lives, Jess Stacy, Joe Bushkin, Lee Wiley, Liberty Music shop, Michael Steinman, Rodgers and Hart
REMEMBER! JACK ROTHSTEIN RECALLS BOBBY HACKETT
Bobby was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He told me that he became an alcoholic playing at Portuguese weddings there in his early teens.
In the 40’s after a concert, a few members of the Boston Symphony decided to walk a couple of blocks to the Savoy for a drink and persuaded Roger Voisin — the first trumpeter — to go with them. Hackett was playing.
Some time later George Poor (a Hackett admirer, a cornetist himself) asked Voisin what he thought of it and he replied, “I do not much care for jazz, but Bobby Hackett – he is an artist.”
REMEMBER! JACK ROTHSTEIN RECALLS THE METROPOLE
The Metropole in New York City was on Broadway and had a large bar near the front and the musicians played on a stand within the bar. The front window had been removed so passers-by could see and hear them. Dick Wellstood played there with a trad group. He told me that when they were hired the owner told them, “I do not want to interfere with your artistic integrity. You can play anything you want, provided you play loud.”