The Beginning

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In my other blog, "It's Always Something", I happened to mention my late husband, jazz cornetist, Pete Daily, and told a few tales about incidents in our life together. People have shown great interest and have encouraged me to tell them more about him and I realized that I have been wanting a platform to do that for ages. However, I really think Pete deserves a blog of his own..........I just never thought of creating one until now, so without further ado, here it is.  Hint:  click on the page image to enlarge to reading size.
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The above is page 1 of a bio that I wrote about Pete in 1981 for an occasion in which a Jazz club honored him as Jazzman of the year.

At the time Pete was in terrible shape, in a wheelchair, unable to speak, the victim of a very bad stroke, but we attended the huge celebration and he loved it.  I think the loyalty and love of his fans helped him to improve and survive for another 5 years during which we also traveelled to the Sacramento Jazz Festival to be honored as Emperor (and empress.....get that) of Jazz and to many other jazz festivals and concerts.

I pulled this page off of my computer and see that it is in reduced form so I will have to work on getting it restored to proper size before I publish the rest of it.  Meanwhile, I just discovered that if you click on the image it will enlarge it to readable size.