Phil Woods' Rant About Bud Shank Firing in 2004

[Holy Ghost]

  On 5/19/2022 at 1:27 AM, JSngry said:

https://jazztimes.com/archives/john-clayton-succeeds-bud-shank-at-centrum/

John Clayton was hardly a kid then...or unqualified...

https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/ex-centrum-jazz-port-townsend-artistic-director-shank-dies-at-82/

Shank said he wasn’t upset that Centrum decided to make a change, but he’s angered by the way the change was handled.

“It’s not what they did, but how,” Shank said during a telephone interview with the Peninsula Daily News from Tucson.

“They sent me a letter saying my services were terminated. It’s not the best way to do things like that.”

Now that's fair. Shank was 78 at the time. Replacement, sure, but with dignity, please. Like he said, not the best way to do something like that 

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Ran into John Clayton at Cleveland Int'l Airport like 15 years ago. Recognized him immediately as he was hauling his bass on a wheel-like thing. I told him I know who you are, John Clayton, right!?  And he laughed and said yup because nobody else in the airport knew who he was! Nice and congenial guy! 

[Peter Friedman]

I see and hear John Clayton every summer. He leads the house band at the Vail, CO Jazz Party. He also is the director of the student jazz workshop at Vail.

John is a warm and friendly guy, as well as being a fine bass player and composer / arranger.