In late March [1946], Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer was sufficiently curious about the new music to give it an audicnce. He accompanied two purported jazz fans, on the promise of hearing [Charlie] Parker with the [Howard] McGhee Sextet at the Casa Blanca at San Pedro and 28th. On the way to the club, Klemperer was instead mugged by the duo and missed the band.
(aus Kirk Silsbees Liner Notes zu „Howard McGhree: West Coast 1945-1947“, Uptown, CD, 2013)
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