RONALD BIGGS and the Jazz

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by llulla
Things exist that really surprise in the great world of the Jazz. Who would say that one day I would come to be presented Ronald Biggs, one of the famous personages of the great robbery of the paying train in London, and with it to long talk on a really palpitante subject - the JAZZ. They had been three pleasant and interesting meeting where the Jazz was the main subject until reason, I never wanted to know where I was the money, product of the great robbery. The first time it was in the room of Arlindo Coutinho, in the times of Sony Music, where after the expedient it had a served Scottish tea in coffee cup, as in the times of “speaky easy” during the dry law in the United States.
Biggs dealt with the contract of its Mike son, one of integrant of the group “the Group of the magical balloon” that made great success in the record sale. As the meeting was during a lunch in the Lamas with Coutinho. I observed that the people looked at for our table, some surprises, perhaps wanting to know which the subject of that one livened up colloquy. It was when it mainly knew that Biggs was listener assíduo of “the Subject is Jazz”, of the block “the Alley of the Big-Bands”, presented for its compatriot Maxwell Johnstone. It liked and it knew sufficiently on the great American and English orchestras, of which it detached of Ted Heath. The third meeting was during two days in the “House of the Whisker”, in an intitled promotion “the Club of the Colloquy”.
I Coutinho and Biggs was interviewed by some journalists who had photographed in them and promised in giving copies to them of the photos. As it was of if to wait the photos they had been never published much less seen for us. The reinante subject was the Jazz and after some doses of the Scottish tea I was for the piano stimulated for Coutinho. Clearly that the enthusiasm of the gifts helped in the scaffolding and gave to roll for almost half hour. Coming back toward the table, I was surprised by Biggs that gave to its book “RONALD to me BIGGS - Odd man out” and made question to autograph it and to dedicate to the couple Luiz Carlos Antunes. The year of 1994 ran and must one more time say that it was very interesting these meeting, showing the force of the Jazz. I decided to include this story in my histories when knowing that Biggs, prisoner in London and with its counted days possibly deserved this reference.
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