<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Good that you're still in the game, Charlie. several DJMLers have mentioned their ages, and if I glean rightly, we're a pretty, er, seasoned group—70+, maybe? I'm 83 but stopped drumming at 72 when the tubs, as we once called them, got too heavy to tote, my foot went all sluggish, etc. Many bands are playing our kinds of music, but I wonder if groups like this will suffer the fate of IAJRC. It was a terrific group with scholarly articles in it journal, but by its rolls I saw that the membership was superannuated (love that word), and it folded.. The "American Rag" has morphed into "Syncopated Times," keeping up with trad, Dixieland, and bands, festivals, and artists. Yes, it mostly covers USA and this list ranges far and wide, but it's more literate and entertaining than it predecessor and available online. I've rambled here, as befits an octogenarian, but at 2:20 am (still a night hawk—old habits die hard), I'm going to bed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charles</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 17, 2018, at 12:21 AM, Charlie Hull <<a href="mailto:charleshull7652@comcast.net" class="">charleshull7652@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class=""><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Charlie Hull,
Sacramento, California</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Tenor sax, clarinet,
bass, guitar<br class="">
</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Joined the list in its
early years. At Bill Gunter's request, made DJML badges one year
for Sacramento Jazz Jubilee rendezvous.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Celebrated my 90th in
April. Still playing a half dozen gigs a month; mostly as
sideperson on tenor and clarinet.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Keep on keepin' on.</font></p><p class=""><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">Charlie<br class="">
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