Honolulu… gibt ja auch schon die Geschichten von Cee Pee Johnson auf Hawaii… die Ortega Geschichte kopier ich mal hier hin:
Ortega: One thing I’d like to mention here, Steve—I may have forgot—is soon after I had left Lionel Hampton in the end of ’53 I had come back to Los Angeles for a short period, and I did a gig for a few weekends, a jazz gig, with my own quartet in a place called the Red Feather. And I can’t recall if that was on— I believe it was on Western, but it was so long ago that I can’t really remember. And I had Carl Perkins on piano.
Isoardi: Oh, jeez.
Ortega: A really fine piano player.
Isoardi: A beautiful player.
Ortega: And Chuck Thompson on drums, whom I had met in Hamp’s band, and Monk Montgomery on bass. Now, during this time Monk had been experimenting for Fender [Musical Instruments], the Fender company, at that time, who was just starting with electric bass. I would guess he was the first one who was a jazz player to play the electric bass. He was experimenting for them. They gave him some instruments and this and that, and they used his name for advertisements and everything like that. But anyway, Redd Foxx was also on the same bill. He was the comedian, of course. He was the comedian between our jazz sets. It was a heck of an enjoyable experience. I just thought I’d mention that.
wenn das ein bisschen schlecht transkribiert ist und sich „whom I had met in Hamp’s band“ auf Montgomery bezieht statt auf Thompson, wird es so viel nachvollziehbarer… spaeter um 1960 gab es dann live auch sowas wie Hawes/Montgomery/Marable… aber das mag durchaus hieraus entstanden sein…
edit: Ortega und Montgomery waren am 18.11.1953 noch mit L Hampton in Mannheim…
--
.