Rich Derosa
This weeks gig was another grand success. Maybe its just a slow time of year but no one seems to be subbing out and the few subs we have are just tremendous. I think everyone is getting excited for our upcoming gig on Friday November 16th at Cecil’s.
The weekend is a whole other ball game. We’re hoping that a nice crowd on Friday Night will help build the Monday night audience.
Molly Palermo
This past Monday was the second night playing with the band for Rich DeRosa who is a tremendous talent on drums. He teaches arranging at William Paterson so I know he knows his stuff. I’m looking forward to playing some of his arrangements. The cast of awesome subs included Freddie Hendricks on lead trumpet, Matt Haviland on trombone, Molly Palermo on bass and Roxy Coss on saxophone subbing for Jim Saltzman whose baby boy – Jackson Bryce Saltzman was born this week.
Anton Denner Soloing on Speak Low
Highlights of the night included Craig Yaremko’s Hodgish reading of Strayhorn’s Bloodcount and Anton Denner’s post modern Bird thing on Scott Reeve’s arrangement of Speak Low. The brillance of the guys (and women) in the band is truly inspiring to me. I’m very happy at the level of musicianship from people that are not here for any reason other than their love for the music. The morale is good in the band and when the feeling is right, better and better players keep popping up ready to play in or sub in the band.
