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From Elmurmurings 3 (August 1944):
I’d like you to meet the piano trio.
That’s li’l Elmer in the foreground. Center is Vernell Glenn of Chicago and Denver, best known as Mac. Played at Elmer’s Lounge in Chi; the Embassy, the Five Points and (with his own band) the Chez Paris in Denver; Fanny Bell’s and the Southern Mansions here. Piano-player, dancer, singer, and entertainer. Now in Omaha. At far right is Servando Cervantes de Ayala, known as Bud. Fine piano player: left hand rhythms that evolve, cross, intertwine. Eight years on the road as professional dancer. Loveliest speaking voice I've ever heard in a man.
We’re at Bud’s Kurtzman studio grand in this picture; hut when we jived together we ordinarily worked two pianos, once or twice three----- gad and what bashes those were! Each style was so darn different that the kicks just never quit. And I was by far the weakest in the trio.
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