Gianni Member Username: Gianni
Post Number: 250 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 11:06 am: | |
Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, a sensational, award-winning Latin Jazz group and one of the greatest jazz groups around, period, is playing at the new Music Hall jazz club Sunday Oct 22: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/ph p/news.php?id=8656 http://www.mmmusicagency.com/j gonzalez.htm I saw them last night, Saturday for the 10:30 set after the Tigers lost. There were maybe 15 paying customers there for this world class group. They had the bad luck of being booked across the street from and during the World Series! If you are a jazz lover and especially if you love latin jazz you can't afford to miss this. I saw them tonight and they were transcendent. Plus, the drummer is the unbelievable young Cuban virtuoso Dafnis Prieto. As I was leaving I talked the the pianist, Larry Willis. I said maybe baseball fans and hard core jazz fans had little in common. He put me in my place. He said he had been tying to get in touch with an old friend of his, who played on the 68 World series championship Detroit Tigers team, someone who hit a grand slam to win the final game -- Jim Northrup. Then the sax player, Joe Ford, walked out, and Willes pointed out that Joe Ford used to be a pitcher. So much for my mistaken sterotypes about the lack of commonality between jazz musicians and baseball. |
Jimg Member Username: Jimg
Post Number: 726 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 6:10 pm: | |
Aside from gigs at ballparks (there is a 1919 pic of King Oliver's band playing in Chi at a game) and Louis Armstrong's "Secret Nine" N.O. team, most big bands had teams. Basie's 1939 band fielded a softball team with Pres on the mound...bet it was slopitch... |
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