Roger Mouton said:
He sat at our table during a break and he remembered the fog incident. I was blown away. He had never met me before that night.
This is so typical of Red. All our long-time TBDBers are saying:
"There goes Warmbaton off on Red again"
When I graduated from High School at about 16, I had saved up some bread to treat myself to something nice. I decided it would be to take my first plane trip out to L.A. to hear Red. This was in 1959. Bud Shank had just played a date in Denver, so I asked if he thought it would be cool to contact Red and he said sure, so I contacted the L.A. Musicians union and got his phone #. His wife at the time, Rosey answered and said in so many words "
Yes, come on out, he's playing at a club called Sherry's that night. So I got up my nerve and went out.
At this time he was using a fiver, on his way to the time when he would get to the fifth tuning era. He was also playing jazz cello als O.P. So was I. He asked me to play, so he would play piano and I would play bass or I woul play cello and he would play bass...or any combination thereof. What a night!! It took me a minute to get used to that fifth string.
Point is, he treated me like an old friend because he had to have known I was scared ****less!
The big thing I learned from Red and to this day is the importance off playing music for the pure beauty and communication rather than that old devil the ego.
I've actually patterned not only my playing but my life in general after this cat.....He'll always be my hero!
