JJJ Blog

Hi everybody,

I’m sitting here with my lunchtime cup of tea and thinking about last night’s jam session. It was almost a big band jam session last night with nine musicians playing, most of the time some darn good jazz (there were a few numbers that didn’t go so well but were a great source of amusement!) Good to see Monte back on drums (Yes, Yippee, Yippee, we had a drummer again!) Wayne came back to the fold with his Alto as well. Good to see and hear the both of you again, come back soon (like next session maybe?) Audrey on Piano and Bob on Bass along with Monte kept us all together. Dave on Violin, John on Clarinet, Ken on Trumpet as well as Steve on Trumpet & Piano and yours truly on Clarinet filled out the line up and made good sound last night.

Quite a variety of tunes in normal JJJ tradition and quite a workout on a few of them! Thanks to all of you for attending. Next session is on Thursday, August 12th followed by the Dixieland jam session on Wednesday August 18th. Mark your calendars and I’ll see you there.

Have fun and stay cool.

Larry

Hi Everybody

Another hot & humid night for July 8th’s jam session but this time the power was on at Jefferson Heights! Seven of us had a fun little jam session. Rick, Audrey & Steve did the duties on piano with Bob backing them up on bass. Steve also exercised his many talents on trumpet and bass. Aaron came along to impress us with his vocal prowess and wonder upon wonders we had a trombone player! Larry (not yours truly) bought along his trombone and did a darned good job sitting in on all the numbers. Man! It was good to hear a trombone at the jam session again. Come back again soon Larry, we want to hear you again. We were still without a drummer (where for art though all you drumming stars?) but Bob kept us all together with his sturdy bass lines. Rather a fun session and one of the most enjoyable for me in a while. I must mention Audrey’s piano solo on Summertime which was one of the most beautiful improvised solos I have ever heard her play with delicately cascading notes just like summer rain. Cool Audrey!

Next jam session is the Dixieland jam session on Wednesday July 14! Mark your calendars and make the time to come along and join us having a blast with the jazz that started it all!

See you there.

Larry