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Seven dedicated jammers braved Charlottesville’s gridlock traffic, failed traffic lights and the aftermath of one of the fiercest summer storms to make it to Jefferson Heights last night. JH was without power like most of Charlottesville so we had an acoustic jam session and in true JJJ tradition it went rather well.

We had to cut the session short when we started running out of daylight and as the JH AC system was inoperative it was starting to get a little sticky! We all had fun though and a big thanks to all of you for attending.

Next jam session is on Thursday July 8th followed by the Dixieland jam session on Wednesday July 14th. Mark your calendars! See you there.

Larry

Hi Everybody.

Nice little jam session last night with seven of us enjoying the warm evening and having fun playing jazz (and entertaining the JH residents as well). Regular jammers all last night; Bob on bass, Steve on piano and trumpet, John and yours truly on clarinet, Dave on violin and good to see Audrey back with us doing a superb job on the piano. Aha! you say, “that’s only six people!” There is a good reason for that. Gordon, our erstwhile and loyal regular drummer, was with us too, but also for probably the last time. Gordon is leaving us all and moving to Texas so last night was possibly Gordon’s swansong. Gordon has been such a regular drummer for the JJJ that he will be sorely missed. I’m sure all of you will join me in wishing Gordon the best of luck in Texas. Luckily Gordon says he can still look after the JJJ website for us so he has not left our little bunch of musicians for good.

We always kind of relied on Gordon to be the drummer for us and a darned good job he always did with his little kit of drums (plus whatever he could find to hit !) So now we need a regular drummer urgently! Any of you drummers out there able to help? As Gordon showed us you don’t need a full kit just a snare, brushes, sticks and a hi-hat/cymbal can make a great jazz drum sound. Pass the word around everybody please.

Next jam is our Dixieland monthly jam session at JH next week on Wednesday June 16th. Come along and play the jazz that started it all! See you there.

Larry