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Fandango, v. 3, issue 3, whole 11, Spring 1946
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had Jack Dale, very good. Roy Hotson had drums and was good enough, althought nothing sensational. Tommy Miosman was our reed section, mainly on clarinet. Bus Johnson, once of Whiteman's orchestra and at that time instructor of brass instruments at the Uneo Academy of Music was on trombone, and a Jap named Kaji played good (but relatively straight) trumpet. I vacillated between the reed and rhythm sections, hammering tenor banjo when the tune was in one of my good keys, switching to C-melody sax when it wasn't. We used to average about twenty persons dropping in each time, including half the Diplomatic Corps in small pieces, and paid no attention to any of them. They were told, "You know where the beer is. Help yourself and don't bother us." Wilder Hobson, the fellow who wrote the book on jazz, was in Japan that spring for Fortune and hardly missed a session. He sometimes sat in with the trombone but had a rather open and therefore fluttery embouchure. He brought his own horn after the first session and really played some gutbucket choruses. Most of the Jap boys who used to play for my platters are still in the game. We've had them at the Correspondent's Club for a couple of dances. Kaji is still at first trumpet. Second trumpet has listened to plenty of records and comes as near to taking off as any Japanese I've ever heard. They're a nice, tight band. The boys know each other and on a number like Caldonia really make those little black dots ride. But I'm afraid they're the only thing of their kind in Japan nowadays. The old Reinanzaka Five is upbusted. *********** AHOY SUCKER Have you a complete file of Fan-Dango? I have just one extra file, consisting of Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 3-a, 4; Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2, 2-a (a suppressed issue which never appeared in the mailing!), 3, 3a, 3b, 4; Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2. Fourteen separate issues, 88 pages of this and that. Postpaid, mailed in plain envelope. . . . . . . . $100.00 And how about the Lovecraft Bibliography? Lots of 'em @ 10.00 And there are a few of the following single issues of Fan-Dango. Often there is only one left, so first come . . . . Stf Heretic/Slan Center) I-2, Sept 1943 . . . . 15.00 (Mailing comments, etc.) I-3, Winter 1943 . . . . 10.00 (The notorious Anglo Saxon ish) I-4, Spring 1944 . . . . 10.00 (Gutless Wonders/Fan Ethics) II-1, Summer 1944 . . . . 10.00 (Ackerman tells of Fritz Leiber) II-2, Fall 1944 . . . .10.00 FAPA Music Poll Results) II-4, Spring 1945 . . . . 5.00 (Fan-Danging Program) III-2, Winter, 1946 . . . . 10.00 How many of you have the gargantuan second issue of Mel Brown's FAN SLANTS? Around 70 pages of meaty reading; if it were not for the typographical errors, this would be one of the best fanzines of all time. I have a few copies at only . . . . 25.00 ---ooOoo--- All the foregoing prices include postage. Rush your order to Honest Fran, the poor collector's savior, 1005 West 35th Place, Los Angeles 7 And, as a last special inducement, if you send cash with your order, you may deduct a 99% discount from the prices quoted. All moneys received from this advertisement will be donated to the F. Towner Laney endowment fund, and squandered wastefully on this, or perhaps that. ******** Fan-Dango is a personalized publication of Francis T. Laney, published for FAPA on fifth-rate stencils swiped from the U S Army by a nameless benefactor. -- 2 --
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had Jack Dale, very good. Roy Hotson had drums and was good enough, althought nothing sensational. Tommy Miosman was our reed section, mainly on clarinet. Bus Johnson, once of Whiteman's orchestra and at that time instructor of brass instruments at the Uneo Academy of Music was on trombone, and a Jap named Kaji played good (but relatively straight) trumpet. I vacillated between the reed and rhythm sections, hammering tenor banjo when the tune was in one of my good keys, switching to C-melody sax when it wasn't. We used to average about twenty persons dropping in each time, including half the Diplomatic Corps in small pieces, and paid no attention to any of them. They were told, "You know where the beer is. Help yourself and don't bother us." Wilder Hobson, the fellow who wrote the book on jazz, was in Japan that spring for Fortune and hardly missed a session. He sometimes sat in with the trombone but had a rather open and therefore fluttery embouchure. He brought his own horn after the first session and really played some gutbucket choruses. Most of the Jap boys who used to play for my platters are still in the game. We've had them at the Correspondent's Club for a couple of dances. Kaji is still at first trumpet. Second trumpet has listened to plenty of records and comes as near to taking off as any Japanese I've ever heard. They're a nice, tight band. The boys know each other and on a number like Caldonia really make those little black dots ride. But I'm afraid they're the only thing of their kind in Japan nowadays. The old Reinanzaka Five is upbusted. *********** AHOY SUCKER Have you a complete file of Fan-Dango? I have just one extra file, consisting of Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 3-a, 4; Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2, 2-a (a suppressed issue which never appeared in the mailing!), 3, 3a, 3b, 4; Vol. II, Nos. 1, 2. Fourteen separate issues, 88 pages of this and that. Postpaid, mailed in plain envelope. . . . . . . . $100.00 And how about the Lovecraft Bibliography? Lots of 'em @ 10.00 And there are a few of the following single issues of Fan-Dango. Often there is only one left, so first come . . . . Stf Heretic/Slan Center) I-2, Sept 1943 . . . . 15.00 (Mailing comments, etc.) I-3, Winter 1943 . . . . 10.00 (The notorious Anglo Saxon ish) I-4, Spring 1944 . . . . 10.00 (Gutless Wonders/Fan Ethics) II-1, Summer 1944 . . . . 10.00 (Ackerman tells of Fritz Leiber) II-2, Fall 1944 . . . .10.00 FAPA Music Poll Results) II-4, Spring 1945 . . . . 5.00 (Fan-Danging Program) III-2, Winter, 1946 . . . . 10.00 How many of you have the gargantuan second issue of Mel Brown's FAN SLANTS? Around 70 pages of meaty reading; if it were not for the typographical errors, this would be one of the best fanzines of all time. I have a few copies at only . . . . 25.00 ---ooOoo--- All the foregoing prices include postage. Rush your order to Honest Fran, the poor collector's savior, 1005 West 35th Place, Los Angeles 7 And, as a last special inducement, if you send cash with your order, you may deduct a 99% discount from the prices quoted. All moneys received from this advertisement will be donated to the F. Towner Laney endowment fund, and squandered wastefully on this, or perhaps that. ******** Fan-Dango is a personalized publication of Francis T. Laney, published for FAPA on fifth-rate stencils swiped from the U S Army by a nameless benefactor. -- 2 --
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