The Sound of Froggy

Any interested out-of-town friends and aquaintances will have a chance to hear me Monday morning playing with my latest group, "The Riverbend Radio Ramblers", similcast live on the web via the WWOZ 90.7 FM website, 10am -10:30 US Central Time this Monday the 21st.

We're playing for the radio beg-a-thon fund drive. It's a trad jazz band, consisting of a group of friends who happen to be able to make it to the station on a weekday morning. Some of us have played together in different contexts, but this specific group has met and rehearsed twice. With a couple of pros, some good amateurs and some good-time irregulars, to my pleasant suprise we have a full band: Two trumpets, trombone, tenor sax, alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, guitar, banjo, piano, sousaphone, and drums.

With luck we'll be able to sound as good for our first public performance Monday morning as on our last runthroughs last night, and I won't regret mentioning this. Triumph, train-wreck, or in between, I'll be playing trombone and doing some singing and probably a whistling solo.