[Dixielandjazz] Sax Appeal article

[Richard Broadie]

I found this interesting and trust you will too.  Dick
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This article will be published in the "American Rag" a Dixieland Jazz Newspaper for the West Coast. Along with it will be photos from the first Sax Appeal and one of my Mom. Thought you might like to see it. I am not a writer but have written some articles for this publications before. They seem to like the way I write but it takes me days to do something like this.

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  Sax Appeal
  San Diego, CA
   
  Over a decade ago, in Orange County, CA, Judie Carr Bruno produced two concerts she called Sax Appeal. It was a dream of hers to join three of the hottest sax players together, Bob Murphy, George Probert and Larry Wright, along with the Natural Gas JB from the San Francisco area. The results were some wonderful events enjoyed by many and Judie was often asked if those concerts would ever be reproduced again. 

  Now, as a gift to her mother, Dee Dee Larson, who turned 80 in February (this is not a birthday party but a celebration of Dee Dee’s wonderful life) these fantastic musicians are again joining together for another Sax Appeal concert and Dee Dee is flying in from Minnesota to join in the festivities. 

  Dee Dee was raised with music and from a very young age, hardly big enough to hold the cymbals she played, she was a member of the city band directed by her brother. She learned to play the bass drum and was a drum major for many years. She and her sisters sang around the piano her father played every Sunday. Music, all good music, has been a very large part of her life and still is as she still goes to many festivals and concerts every year. 

  In the late 80’s Judie heard a band called the “Dixie Kats” playing Dixieland Jazz at a local pub in Newport Beach and brought her Mom, Dee Dee to listen. From the members of the band they learned of festivals up and down the coast of California and later that year they attended their first Jubilee in Sacramento. It was there that they first heard the Natural Gas JB and “trad” Jazz or what is called the "San Francisco" sound and both became huge fans and friends of the band traveling many times to enjoy them and so many other bands at festivals over the years.

  During one of these weekends festivals George Probert, one of the original members of the Fire House Five JB, sat in with Bob Murphy and the Natural Gas JB and when Judie heard the sound of the two saxes with the band it excited her to no end. A few years later, Judie met Larry Wright, who has a lengthy list of bands he has played with in So California, and had an opportunity to introduce him to the band. When he played with group the idea came to Judie to have all three saxes together and Sax Appeal was born. 

  It has taken many years to finally get Sax Appeal together again for a repeat of this great concert. Please join us for this next chapter in the grouping of these wonderful musicians and help us celebrate the life of Dee Dee Larson who can't wait to hear them again. Sax Appeal is open to the public and admission is free. The concert will be held on March 18, 2006 from 12 noon to 4 PM at the Yesteryears Dinner Club, 235 West Second Street, Pomona, Ca. (off Garey/between the 60 and the 10 freeways. Parking in the rear. For further information call Judie Carr Bruno at (760) 580-4189 





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