Nov 18th midweek update

First, last night at The Freakin' Frog. You wanna hear some serious straight-ahead jazz, go and hang here. I was proud of our local bro's. Thought I was in The Village.

Those are all the decent shots I could manage in the weak-assed lighting. Drummer was pretty much in the dark, as was Julian (on soprano). Notwithstanding, I gotta say, the cats were smokin'!

TOMORROW NIGHT: THE NEM PROJECT

10:30 pm, The Cheyenne Saloon.

• Nick Evans Mowery, Guitar & Vocal
• Yves Frulla, Piano (Former Keyboard Player for Celine Dion 20 yrs)
• Billy Bilger, Drums (Former Drummer for Sammy Davis Jr)
• Tod Andrews, Bass

G.I. JAMS

This is pretty cool. Saw a story about it on The Las Vegas Sun website.

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THURSDAY NOV 19th UPDATE

One of Lenny's kids is goin' here. He wanted me to check it out, so I slid by and picked him up last night and we cruised over (S. Eastern at Patrick Ln).

It is way cool.

There was a cat givin' a guitar/theory class in another room to four youngsters. I was gonna shoot a pic of that too, but, then I thought, "hmmm...might be some parental consent issues there...nah..."

Lenny tells me that Jerry got The Hard Rock to donate a bunch of guitars to them, so kids who would otherwise not be able to buy an axe could use one here to learn on. That is very cool.

Richard tells me their website will be up very soon. I will post it and link it when it comes online.
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CECILIA NOEL

I'm on her mailing list. I dig her stuff. Whew! I have her CDs. If you're in SoCal tonight, you might wanna go hang.

How's this for a band lineup? 'eh? Yikes.


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