Jazz Scrapbook: Dick Oxtot-Me & Other Stuff. This item is unavailable.Jazz Scrapbook: Dick Oxtot-Me & Other Stuff

Share with Dick Oxtot, long-time musician and composer, some special memories of: Robert Crumb, Bunk Johnson, George Lewis, Turk Murphy, Muggsy Spanier, Barbara Dane, Janis Joplin, Bob Mielke, "Kid" Ory, and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. Jazz Scrapbook includes a chapter about women in jazz, and one on the Swinging A's who played toe-tapping music between innings for the Oakland A's baseball team. Dick Oxtot, musician and composer, has been a musical institution in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 40's. He has recorded or played with, to name a few, Barbara Dane, Dixieland Rhythm Kings, Bob Helm, Bunk Johnson, Janis Joplin, George Lewis, Bob Mielke, Turk Murphy and the Polecats. Over the years, he has played cornet, banjo, string bass, tuba, plus some piano which helped him to compose such tunes as "Ain't Nobody Got the Blues Like Me," "My Lovin' Imogene," "Polecat Strut," and others. He is well known for his long gig at The Point in Richmond, and for many years with Bob Mielke's Swinging A's Band, which was the "house band" for the Oakland A's baseball team. Dick also found time to write numerous articles for jazz periodicals.

Jim Goggin founded the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation, has reproduced recordings and written for jazz periodicals. He is author of Turk Murphy-Just for the Record, Bob Scobey, A Bibliography and Discography, and The Great Jazz Revival (co-authored with Peter Clute, the well-known jazz pianist).