[Dixielandjazz] Report from Sacramento Jubilee

[David Richoux]

My big report (after playing three long sets with the California 
Repercussions on Friday and Saturday to great audiences) was the thrill 
of finally seeing Sac a Pulse (sorry, no accents) playing live! For 
being "just" a 5 piece group from France without a trumpet I think they 
were really quite great - the songs they played were outstanding and 
the scat-singing soprano sax player was quite a hit with the audience!
Before the band started playing the people behind me were wondering if 
they should stay for the performance - I told them that they might 
possibly be seeing the best band of the weekend but they said - "what 
about "Muggsy Remembered" or "Cornet Chop Suey" but  I had to tell them 
that they should stick around and see what happens. They did and 
afterwards they were quite happy to do so.

On Saturday I had a brief exposure to Cornet Chop Suey - they were also 
very good and a big crowd was thrilled, but the biggest response I 
personally saw to any performance was Tom Rigney and Flambeau 
Cajun/Zydeco band Friday night at the Freeway Garden doing the Orange 
Blossom Special as a hot jazz/traditional country number - everybody in 
the audience was really rocking by the time that song was over...  
Trad? No ...  but it was great music!

This was the first year I ever played at Cal Expo for the festival - I 
can see why the RV'rs will not be too happy next year  - I hope some 
solution can be worked out soon...

anyway, it was a great weekend -  I have performed in about 20 
Sacramento Jazz Jubilees and been in the audience for most of the rest 
and this was a particularly great year!

Dave Richoux

On May 30, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Steve barbone wrote:

> Artwoo at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone:
>> Yesterday was one of the best days of jazz listening of my life 
>> coming close
>> to Louis Armstrong at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley in 1962.