[Dixielandjazz] [SPAM] Swing Fever in December

[Don Ingle]

Robert Ringwald wrote:
> For anyone in the SF Bay area.  Or anyone that will be visiting in 
> Dec, here is the schedule for a really fine swing band.
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Sorry we can't catch this string of dates, Bob. But we have some swing 
sessions going on here in the North Woods of Michigan. I've had my ax 
swinging every day, and some hot stuff has resulted. Theme song is 
Woodchoppers Ball, and my ax has been splitting firewood for our woodstove.
I'd ask a neighbor to join me for a 'cutting session,' but the turncoat 
is headed for Florida already.

But anyone who misses some of the sessions you have alerted us to is 
crazy. We have almost no jazz of  any  kind of OKOM roots going on up 
here, the snow is falling the temperatures dropping, and so we read your 
exhotations about gigs we would love to catch - and hope your words do 
not go unheeded.

Thank God for those tapes, CD's and LP's that remind us of times past 
when you could find some good jazz in a dozen Chicago  and Detroit 
joints at any given time. Now, even in the Big Windy, Andy's Jazz at 
Noon is now Jazz at drive time, and fewer bands are on stage.

Ah well, it's still LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.

But keep the advance news coming - at least we of the jazz deprived can 
still read about them. Since few decent reviews of jazz are in 
newspapers these days, getting it from "The Bob" should earn you a 
Pulitzer. I'd give you mine but it's holding  up one leg of my record 
cabinet.

Regards from the "Chozen Frozen of North Michigan," where we are now a 
two-season state - Winter and Road Construction. There's nobody left in 
this state to turn off the lights when they leave.

Don (there's a ringing in my ear so I shot the cymbol-happy drummer) Ingle