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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Once again, we had a late nite gig (starting at 12:30am!) at a Madrid Dance Club. Great crowd, dancing to anything & everything, but mainly Swing numbers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Below are 3 links to short examples of some of our numbers. Always pleasant to play this gig, although it means dragging piano, amps & drums down a long flight of stairs!! They even have one of our early posters placed over the bar in a backlit frame. The only band to have been given this honor. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9VqW-9vkO8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9VqW-9vkO8</a></span></u><span lang=EN-US> Moonlight Serenade<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKpWR6iHmM"><span lang=EN-US style='color:blue'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKpWR6iHmM</span></a><span lang=EN-US> In The Mood<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGiMNQgj5C8"><span style='color:blue'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGiMNQgj5C8</span></a> Charleston<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We recently had a local jazz club close its doors. Also, a restaurant that gave us up to 3 nites a month sold out to another restaurant next door, and they don’t want music! Last year, Madrid lost two other jazz clubs. Shame.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I was recently in London, and saw a number of bars & restaurants that said they had bands, or jazz bands. I enquired in two. One had a lone sax player honking once a week to his recorded (in the box) backing band. The other, a high end restaurant in the center of the theater area of London, featured once a week pianist with a singer, or a guitarist with a singer. Economics are taking its toll on everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>When I first arrived in Spain in the late 1960’s, I played in a 6 piece house band 7 nights a week (from midnite to 4am), 11 months a year! And, that house band, including myself, were busy in the recording studios every day, often from 9am until 9pm, backing all types of recordings from Flamenco to Rock to Jazz, to semiclassical! Different times…….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>