saint frinatra
fell by fred's friday night to hear saint frinatra, brian sharp's six-piece "augmented" version of his stripped-down society-gig unit, the b#3. fred's a/c had quit working that morning, so there were a few more folks than usual out on the patio, to which outlaw chef terry chandler has made a few more improvements (although, as he points out, "what i _do_ depends on what i _make_" -- money-wise, that is), thankfully leaving the currie and morton sign visible from the patio.
school's out now, leaving middle school strings teacher chris white more time to work on his trumpet, flute, and bass chops, which he demonstrated by playing some tricky sliding double stops by way of transition between "chameleon" and "footprints." pianist frank hailey's son michael was occupying the drum seat and with a couple of additional percussionists onboard, they had a nice little section that sounded particularly good on the brazilian numbers rebecca gillespie sang. hailey pere looks to have left some troublesome health problems behind for the time being at least, and the leader strolled to give him the opportunity to take the spotlight on "bluesette." brian did his usual beat poet-styled recitative on "mercy, mercy, mercy" in addition to his horn work.
(besides their fred's residency, saint frinatra's playing at hip pocket theatre through the end of july. the band's website has a bunch of andre edmonson-engineered mp3's from the shows they played at the wreck room back in the winter of '03-'04.)
afterward, we walked around the neighborhood a bit and watched the "concerts in the garden" fireworks from the lancaster ave. bridge. since they moved the downtown fireworks from the end of taylor st. to la grave field, it's no longer possible to view them from our old vantage point atop the parking garage by tcom, so that just might have been our 4th of july this year. as we strolled back by fred's on the way to the car and home, we heard chris playing the riff from "smoke on the water" behind the vamp on "wave." you gotta love a musical jokester.
school's out now, leaving middle school strings teacher chris white more time to work on his trumpet, flute, and bass chops, which he demonstrated by playing some tricky sliding double stops by way of transition between "chameleon" and "footprints." pianist frank hailey's son michael was occupying the drum seat and with a couple of additional percussionists onboard, they had a nice little section that sounded particularly good on the brazilian numbers rebecca gillespie sang. hailey pere looks to have left some troublesome health problems behind for the time being at least, and the leader strolled to give him the opportunity to take the spotlight on "bluesette." brian did his usual beat poet-styled recitative on "mercy, mercy, mercy" in addition to his horn work.
(besides their fred's residency, saint frinatra's playing at hip pocket theatre through the end of july. the band's website has a bunch of andre edmonson-engineered mp3's from the shows they played at the wreck room back in the winter of '03-'04.)
afterward, we walked around the neighborhood a bit and watched the "concerts in the garden" fireworks from the lancaster ave. bridge. since they moved the downtown fireworks from the end of taylor st. to la grave field, it's no longer possible to view them from our old vantage point atop the parking garage by tcom, so that just might have been our 4th of july this year. as we strolled back by fred's on the way to the car and home, we heard chris playing the riff from "smoke on the water" behind the vamp on "wave." you gotta love a musical jokester.
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