Conrad Ray Hicks
This Guest Book has been kept online by Friends of the Old Arizona Brass Band
Band Ray started in Tucson is still going strong in 2009. Thanks Ray(& Nancy)for enriching our lives so much.
Ray Hicks was an amazing go-getter with a profound curiosity for western history and the forgotten music of the American Brass Band Era. Serious, genuine, capable, attentive to detail, with an unpretentious good heartedness throughout. Not to mention a terrific soprano cornet player, a joy to hear! It was a priviledge to know and learn from Ray.
I remember Ray from his time with the 159th Army Band. Ray was always a friendly person and easy to talk to.
My association with Ray, the El Dorado Brass Band of Old Sacramento, (and that tongue and rope tension bass drum) was an immeasurably wonderful experience. He was a walking encyclopedia of American history and music. He will be missed.
I knew Ray from the 59th & 159 Army Bands in California. He will indeed be missed.