September 8, 2012

Tunes played today:     Body and Soul, Autumn Leaves, Autumn In New York, Once I Loved, Rhy-A-Ning, Lullaby Of The Leaves, Red Top, Dear Old Stockholm, Blue On Green, Where Or When, Invitation, It Had To Be You, Along Came Betty, A Night In Tunisia, Hallilluh I Love You So, Time After Time, Caravan, Fly Me To The Moon, Dindi, Have You Met Miss Jones, Touch Of Your Lips, In Walked Bud, Nobody Knows You When Your down And Out, Mabe September, I Could Write A Book, You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To, and Lets Get Lost.

Players and Vocalists:     Gene-drums, Steve-alto, Wes-tenor, Greg-guitar, Sam-bass, Jim-piano and Vocalists:  Dick, Annie,Sheila and Victoria.

August 27, 2012

Tunes played today:     Close Your Eyes, Marmaduke, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Never Been In Love Before, Blues For Alice, Lets Get Lost, I Thought About You, Fly Me To The Moon, Ghost Of A Chance, In Walked Bud, Like Someone In Love, How High The Moon, Lover Man, and Just In Time.

The Playeers and Singers today:     Steve-alto, Craig-guitar, Gene-drums, Sam-bass, Wes-tenor and vocalists:  Victoria, Annie, Sheila and Dick.

August 20, 2012

Tunes played this week include:    Blue Monk, Body and Soul, The Very Thought Of You, Never Let Me Go, One Note Samba, Tangerine, Along Came Betty, Bye Bye Baby, Waltz For Debbie, and Darn That Dream.

Players and Singers:     Gene – drums, Jeff – bass, Wes – tenor, Craig – guitar, Peter – bari, Sam – brass synth, Bronko – tenor and vocalists:  Dick and Annie.

NOTE:  Next week, Aug 27^th will be the last Summer Session.  Winter Hours will begin September 8^th.  Sat 11:00am to 3:45.

NOTE:  Next week, Aug 27th will be the last Summer Session this year.

              Winter Hours, Saturday 11:00 am to 3:45 will begin September 8th.

August 13, 2012

Tunes played on this warm afternoon:    Night In Tunisia, Bye Bye Blackbird, Whisper Not, Autumn In New York, A Child Is Born, Caravan, Where Or When, Work Song, Autumn Leaves, Maybe September, Lullaby Of The Leaves, Nearness Of You, I Ain’t Got Nothing But The Blues and Just Friends.

Players and Singers:    Gene – drums, Sam – trumpet synth, Greg – guitar, Craig – guitar, Steve – alto, Jeff – bass, and vocals Annie, Sheila and Dick.

July 30, 2012

Tunes played this week include:   Funny Valentine, This Can’t Be Love, Mercy, Mercy, I Remembwer Clifford, I’ll Remember April, I Don’t Knoe Why, Four, Watermellon Man.

Players and Singers this week:    Steve – Alto, Jeff – bass, Jim – piano, Gene – drums, Peter – bari, Jack – trumpet, Wes – tenor, Greg – guitar, Jeff – guitar, and vocalists:  Annie and Victoria.

Monday. Jazz. Workshop.

We had a pretty good turnout last night, tunes included: Freddy Freeloader, A Night In Tunisia, I'm Old Fashioned, Summertime, Pent Up House, Straight No Chaser, When I Fall In Love, Skylark, Nica's Dream, and It's You Or No One.

Musicians were Sam-electronic trumpet thingy, Gene-drums, Jeff-bass, Steve-alto sax, Jack-trumpet, Todd-trumpet, and our vocalists were Sheila and Annie.

Here's "Skylark", performed by guitar great Lionel Loueke a few years back at the Dakota. Enjoy.

Summertime, and the livin' is easy...

We're a little late posting again this week...but c'mon, it's summertime!

Tunes included Summertime, Oleo, Waltz For Debby, I'll Remember April, Nuages, Lady Be Good, Darn That Dream, When I Fall In Love, Lover Man, Fine & Mellow, Stormy Weather, So Nice, Day By Day...and a few others I missed cuz I had to leave a little early.

Musicians were Jim-piano, Sam-trumpet, Gene-drums, Jeff-bass, Craig-guitar, Josh-guitar, Wes-tenor sax, Steve-alto sax, Jack-trumpet, Todd-trumpet, Vici-vocals, Dick-vocals, Annie-vocals, and Sheila-vocals. Thanks everyone for coming out!