[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Happening in San Francisco Feb. 25th

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Before my time unfortunately, I was just an itty bitty baby back in 
1946.

But yes Saunders King was another excellent act that played around here 
as did Earl Fatha Hines and Charles Brown and Vernon Alley.

Cheers,

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: EDWIN COLTRIN <boreda at sbcglobal.net>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:34:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz Happening in San Francisco Feb. 25th

    I didn't see any mention of "Saunders King", used to play in a 
downstairs bar on
Geary I think, close to the theatre district.

   Used to be a bar in Oakland, " The Polar Bear Club" where a lot of 
late swing,
a form of rythym and blues and some early jazz was played, circa 
1946/47. Can't
remember the band but Four of us were the only whites in the audience,
Interesting stories then.

  Slainte

  Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge

  Ed Coltrin

tcashwigg at aol.com wrote:


Subject: Jazz Happening in San Francisco Feb. 25th

Marcus Books on FILLMORE STREET SAN FRANCISCO  The Old Bop City
Jazz Club.
Presents a Jazz Memory event;

Saturday, February 25th, 6:00-9:00 p.m., San Francisco
LEWIS WATTS AND ELIZABETH PEPIN in person for autographed copies of
their book:

HARLEM OF THE WEST: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

Billie Holliday singing and Lionel Hampton playing at the Club
Flamingo/Texas Playhouse, Jimi Hendrix playing with Little Richard at
the Fillmore Auditorium, John Handy and Pony Poindexter, Johnny Hodges
and Duke Ellington, Sugarpie DeSanto, Johnny Mathis, and Dexter Gordon
playing at Jimbo's Bop City with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Sammy
Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong and John Coltrane dropping in for jam
sessions. This was the vibrant, swinging jazz scene of San Francisco's
Fillmore in the 1940s and '50s. Through amazing photographs and oral
accounts, Harlem of the West celebrates this unique chapter in jazz
history and the Black experience on the West Coast. The San Francisco
Marcus Book Store building (formerly Bop City) will be magically
transformed for an evening of remembrance, autographing, live jazz, and
refreshments. Dress like 'back in the day' to enter the "Best Dressed
Contest" and win an autographed copy of Harlem of the West.


Hopefully we will soon see such a book about Slim Jenkin's Place in
Oakland, California.


Cheers,

Tom Wiggins
1-925-952-4585
Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band
http://www.sonoicbids.com/StGabrielscelestialbrassband





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