Four or Five Times, Stan on vocal, first of many this evening.   I Will Do Most Anything For You fantastic clarinet backed by piano and string bass. Stan moved to low register clarinet for a sweet I Want a Little Girl, a tune he played with Doc Cheatham on the Jazz Boat in the '70's.

Ross played an upbeat piano intro to There'll Be Some Changes Made. Stan's soprano sax was flittering around Gerry's trombone like a bumble bee. Gerry played fantastic trombone on a HOT Mooch, then a growling trombone on Yes,  We Have No Bananas, and then the roar of the tiger on a fiery Tiger Rag.

Stout's trumpet went wild on Tijuana, one of Jelly Roll's tunes, and That's a Plenty  was plenty HOT!  Jeff Stout is a professor at Berklee College of Music.  He has played with Buddy Rich, Mel Torme, Maxine Sullivan, Buddy Tate, Gary Burton, Joe Lovano, Rosemary Clooney, Dave McKenna, and Gray Sargent.    Jeff makes a difficult and complex trumpet piece look easy.

A good deal of credit for this band goes to the rhythm section, masters all.  The ingenious Ross Petot,  listening to each instrument - and the whole aggregate, keeping it all together with a few surreptitious piano notes; with Dave Bragdon's immaculate timing, and Al Ehrenfreid's solid beat on an acoustic string bass.  The Blue Horizon Jazz Band has always had the finest of New England's Traditional and Dixieland Jazz musicians.  

They closed this  packed Trad Jazz evening with Sleepy Time Down South - leaving everyone craving for more.  The Blue Horizon Jazz Band has played two of the new Senior Brunches to a full house, and regularly plays in the Sherborn Inn Tuesday Jazz program.  The next one will be May 18th, then June 15th - helping me  celebrate my 75th birthday!