Ron S

Yeah, right. It's from my daughter's school. Your daughter goes to school at the Philadelphia Country Club???? You got a problem with that?

Yeah, right. It's from my daughter's school.

Tuesday night at North By Northwest: Where's Mark Sheldon when you need him???

Practicing some new wet-finger-on-wine-glass tunes with my daughter: Look for extensive use of these on the next CD.

Randy hangin' with the Burghers of Calais: Yes, they are also Sun Ra fans.

In front of the Rodin Museum: They tried working as a quartet, but that other guy's playing was a bit too cerebral.

Randy in front of the Sun Ra house, after auditioning for the Arketsra: "Don't call us, we'll call you."

You should come visit him in January and see the shows too!

Right after Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room.

:tup How 'bout ALL his co-workers?

Show starts around 11PM. The "warm-up" band is a local jazz-funk group called Dr. Ketchup (info and sound samples here). Should be a wild and crazy--and FUN--night. DON'T MISS IT!

Elvin Jones now shows up in "Last Chance". But it also still shows up in "Running Low". So, who knows?

After a very successful Philly debut at Chris' Jazz Cafe last Wednesday, our Triumphant Trio appears tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at North By Northwest in the Mt. Airy section of Philly. The show starts at 8pm, so no lame "it's-past-my-bedtime-and-I-gotta-be-up-early-the-next-morning" excuses will be accepted! North By Northwest is in the northwest part of Philly (Duh!), and so is conveniently located for those of you in the northern and western suburbs (don't make me start namin' names ). A terrific time is guaranteed. So who else will be there?

What they said.

My experience with him was fairly decent. In fact, that was the first of the 3 October Philly gigs I was able to nail down. The only difficulty I encountered in dealing with him is that he's only available to discuss bookings on Monday evenings. By the way, I see from my notes that he offered me October 8th (along with the 12th and a couple of other October dates) when I spoke with him in July, and he told me at the time that there would also be a DJ on that date. We did agree that there would be also be a local band on the bill for the 12th (since organissimo had not yet performed in Philly and a local band could help be a draw). The band he scheduled as the "warm-up" for organissimo on the 12th is Dr. Ketchup, a jazz-funk group that should fit well with organissimo. You can hear some samples and read about them here. (Sorry, John--didn't mean to hijack your thread. )

If the boys get back to Philly in time from Virginia Beach (they had a gig there last night), we plan to hit the Brotzmann show first, and then head on to Tritone. So, if Chalupa comes (I can't remember if he said he could), there'll be at least 5 of us there (if you include organissimo as temporarily among your Philly friends ).

They were smokin'! Believe you me, Pat saw a great show.

I second everything Chalupa said. Well, except the part about them being the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Although my dog seems to like them.

Up for tonight. So anyone else coming besides Templejazz, Chalupa, and me?

Nope, Philly's as far north as they'll get this time. But they're playing 3 different clubs here between tomorrow and next Thursday, in case you want to make the trip down!

The boys are on the road now, headin' for Philly. So WHO ELSE IS COMING TO CHRIS' TOMORROW?

Shit. Now I gotta do laundry.

Or be square!!! (Don't forget that part Jim. Nobody on this Board--and especially not Chalupa--wants to be a square. )

Are you implying that we have low expectations?

Don't make us come lookin' for ya.