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brucemacdonald
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I found this on another site and I had to share it with someone:
" The greatest big band I ever played with was in San Quentin. Art Pepper and I were co-leaders, and we were proud of that band. We had Jimmy Bunn, ... and Frank Butler - he was the number three drummer, that's how many good musicians were already there. ...We played every Saturday night for what they called Warden's Tour, which showed paying visitors - at $17.50 a ticket - only the cleanest cell blocks and exercise yards. I noticed some people coming to the Warden's Tour repeatedly, and I realized they would take that tour just to hear the band, not to see the gas chamber. They'd heard Art was back in the pen and wanted to hear him." -- Frank Morgan
Bruce
" The greatest big band I ever played with was in San Quentin. Art Pepper and I were co-leaders, and we were proud of that band. We had Jimmy Bunn, ... and Frank Butler - he was the number three drummer, that's how many good musicians were already there. ...We played every Saturday night for what they called Warden's Tour, which showed paying visitors - at $17.50 a ticket - only the cleanest cell blocks and exercise yards. I noticed some people coming to the Warden's Tour repeatedly, and I realized they would take that tour just to hear the band, not to see the gas chamber. They'd heard Art was back in the pen and wanted to hear him." -- Frank Morgan
Bruce
