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Re: Jazz Jam Session

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-06-15 17:25

VERY funny, Hank! Thanks for the laugh. Reminds me of a few good times at a Sunday afternoon jazz jam I was a regular at for a few years....

We had our share of vocalists (mostly female, though a few were male -- but nearly all were lousy) and one in particular, a rather overweight lady, was especially bad. One day she walked in wearing a black and white polka-dotted short dress, with high heels and a funny hat, and came up to the bandstand to 'sing'. I mentioned to the drummer that she looked like "Miss Piggy" from "The Muppets", and we both started laughing, and laughing so hard we had to put our gear down and go outside -- we must have been busting our guts for ten minutes before we had settled down enough to be able to return to the room and start playing again. Too much...

Another time we had an 'avant-garde poet" come to the jam, and start reciting some weird stuff while we improvised some 'mood music' behind him. Well, unfortunately word must have gotten around the Amateur Poet community that there was a 'poet-friendly' club in town, because for the next month or two we were inundated with these weird poets, some of who were so off-the-wall that, once more, the musicians would start laughing behind them and be incapable of playing. Thank goodness that phase petered out after a while and the Angry Poets stopped coming...........

Post Edited (2006-06-15 17:27)

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