Harvey's beloved Conn was just not the same after the rebuild.
A real heartbreak for the man so many of us love so much.
If any tubenetters out there have the old CRI (I think that was the label) LP of
Alvin Etler's Quintet For Brass, you are very lucky.
That recording w/ Harvey's virtuoso performance taught me how to get through
that tough piece on my CC. I'll never forget his friendship, sense of humor, and positive influence.
Mikelynch wrote:
Jay can also be heard on many of the Sauter Finnegan Band recordings
Mike --
Beautiful find for the album picture and a fantastic pic of Jay M.
My only recording of the Sauter / Finnegan Orch. has Harvey but
I'd like to find more .....Great Stuff !
Thanks for the Tower Music and Jay M reference. The grouping of the players looks more right, but not the angle and the background. Did this quintet issue other records around that time (1960)?
so the damage and rebuild of THE Harvey Conn was a while back? I haven't heard this story before, so I really do want to know about it. Is that when/why he started working with Holton a bit??
I'm pretty sure that I remember the Conn damage occurring long after Holton advertised their (paraphrasing) "first instrument ever designed on a computer".
