Waldo Grebb And His Electric Baton

Waldo Grebb and His Electric BatonWhen the bitter winds of winter howl out of the frozen north, making the ice-coated telephone wires creak and sigh like suffering live things, many an ex--B-flat-sousaphone player feels that old familiar dull ache in his muscle-bound left shoulder--a pain never quite lost as the years spin on. Ancient numbnesses of the lips permanently implanted by frozen German silver mouthpieces of the past. There is an instinctive hunching forward into the wind, tacking obliq...