[Dixielandjazz] Re: Mighty Aphrodite JB

[Dick Miller]

dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com writes:
>From: "Bret E. Bradford" <bbradford at cruisecafe.com>
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Mighty Aphrodite Jazz Band
>To: "Dixieland list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
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>I would appreciate any comments on this West Coast group. I have been
>approached about booking them for a gig but don't know much about about
>them. Supposedly they are fantastic, but that opinion may be biased.  :-)

There are two young women (early 20s), on trumpet and clarinet, who lead
this group. I first heard them (in another group they play in, the 51st
Eight), at Jazz in the Olympics last year, and as they sat in with Bob
Schulz's Frisco JB. They brought down the house when they traded fours
with Schulz and his clarinetist, and held their own. They both sing well,
too.

I think you'd find them a popular group, and appealing to youngsters as
well as old f*rts like us.

--Dick Miller