Roll call

[infrogmation]

Example of musician friends of two groups I played with shortly before leaving town:


Small jazz band: Froggy's Milneburg Joymakers:

Trumpet: no email address or contact; I strongly suspect he got out to Texas. Home likely some flooding.
Trombone: Me. Escaped to Jacksonville, soon to Austin. House on high ground, but no idea if it survived wind, fires, looting.
Sax: Got out to Georgia. Doesn't know if home still there.
Guitar: Got out to New York.
Tuba: No contact, friend who stayed in town reports his car was gone and a neighbor said he'd left town.
Drums: Got out to Houston.

Big Band: Riverbend Radio Ramblers

First trumpet: Last heard a few days ago, still in New Orleans, in a small apartment uptown, doing okay under the circumstances.
Second trumpet: Stayed in town for a week after the storm around Treme neighborhood, was evacuated to Atlanta, soon to go to Texas.
Trombone 1: Me again
Trombone 2: He and his wife survived the Superdome for 5 days, then were evacuated to Houston, then friends in Atlanta; plan to look for a place in Houston.
Clarinet: Got out to Florida panhandle
Tenor & soprano: Heard he got out, don't know details
Guest tenor sax: in Dallas, doing well. Home on high ground.
Alto sax: also in Dallas; home may have gotten flooding downstairs
Guitar: same as above guitar
Banjo: unaccounted for
Tuba: same tuba as above
Drums: unaccounted for

Comments

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[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Update: Trumpeter in New Orleans got evacuated to Mississippi yesterday.

[grusinskaya.livejournal.com]

I've refrained from saying much because I'm not really sure what to say to someone who has lived through this sort of a national tragedy, but I really do hope that you and your friends end up OK.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I know a number of friends who lost all their possessions and a few who went through some hell, but everyone I've heard word of so far is alive, and I remain optimistic about the others.

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

Joe Tuba from New York's Hungry March Band has been maintaining a NOLA Musicians Lost & Found list. Maybe drop a line to joseph_k@riseup.net to let everyone know the status of you & yours, and inquire after information about bandmates.

Update, for the record

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

First tp: Mississippi
2nd: going back & forth between Texas & Louisiana
Banjo: New Jersey
Tuba: Chicago, may be comming back to S. Louisiana soon
Drums: Minnesota