[Tradjazz] The Symphonic Six

[Bill Barnes]

Howdy Steve:
              I remember those Shrine Club sessions well. I can still see 
you running after a slow moving bus to plant a flyer on its back! I also 
remember being called into the Dean's office for obliterating the campus 
with our flyers.At the session I was almost attacked
 by an angry drunken group for pissing in the sink, but I was only acting 
like a musician......
             Ah, the good old days............Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:04 AM
Subject: [Tradjazz] The Symphonic Six


> To Bill Barnes and SDRCS Historians:
>
> Bill and I went to Duke University in the early 1950s. He formed a 
> Dixieland
> Band there. Later on, he joined the Southampton Dixie, Racing & Clambake
> Society Jazz Band and was instrumental in getting me aboard in the late
> 1950s.
>
> Dear Bill:
>
> Going through my stored stuff, I found an original poster from the run 
> that
> we silk screened and put all over Duke's campus. Fair condition.
>
> "DIXIELAND JAZZ SESSION AT THE SHRINE CLUB - Featuring The Symphonic Six.
> 8:00 to 11:00 PM, Wednesday, November 25 - "Refreshments Served"
>
> The year was 1953 and the band was Bill, Me, Frank Freeman on piano, Rob a
> minister's son from Saco Maine on trombone, Drummer whose name I forget 
> and
> bass whose name I forget.
>
> Weren't those great days Bill?
>
> Unfortunately the party was so successful that it ended our run as Joe
> Hands, Football Player (End) punched several holes in the wall and the
> Shriner's no longer allowed us to use their facility. Yeah, everybody 
> drank
> a little and we had an SRO audience.
>
> So much for "art" music.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
>
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