Bucky Pizzarelli's 88th Birthday Bash

[sgcim]

The great guitar maker, Roger Borys, called me up today and said he had an extra ticket to a concert they had at The Cutting Room in NYC to celebrate Bucky's 88th birthday, so even though it was the coldest day in NY in many years, the words "free ticket" are music to my ears, and I somehow found my way there, and had a nice time.
The band consisted of the NYC jazz guitar mafia- Bucky, Frank Vignola, Gene Bertoncini and Ed Laud(?)-and they played some of Bucky's favorite tunes.
Bucky's still playing the shit out of that 7 string guitar, and each guitarist was featured playing their own solo guitar arrangements, which were all excellent.

Then, Frank Vignola and the guitarist in his duo (Vinnie something)did a medley of songs in A minor, starting out with "Tico-Tico" and jetting through about five others, including Fred Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven", complete with worked out choreography.
Bucky finished with an encore of Jenkins' "Goodbye" and the packed club gave him a standing ovation and sang Happy Birthday to Bucky, as he blew out the candles on his birthday cake.

[Jim R]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing that.

Continued good music and good health for Mr. Pizzarelli.

[Hardbopjazz]

88 and still playing strong. I saw Mr. Pizzarelli in December 2011. You could tell he loves playing music. Bucky was smiling and joking with the audience. He played a 7 string guitar. As you said Jim, "Continued good music and good health for Mr. Pizzarelli."

Edited January 8, 2014 by Hardbopjazz