elemental and essential. there was a old bar on Chicago's West side that a few folks, including the XRT staff, used to call home. The Bucket of Suds was run by an amazing dude named Joe Danno. Joe played only homemade mixtapes of Jazz in the bar. and, he loved B-3 organ trios and, Charles Earland, most of all. so, for Joe's 80th birthday, folks got together and booked Charles and his trio into the Bucket of Suds. there was no room for a band, but we just shoved some tables aside and the 100 or so patrons crowed into the room just walked around the band to get to the bar. it was steamy hot and loud and the nearest thing i'll ever experience to the fabled roadhouse, juke-joint jazz scene of the past. near the end of the night the bar ran out of beer. and, Joe realized it was his 79th, not 80th birthday. thanks for the Charles Earland jams, Bruce. way cool.
Aw man! Charles Earland! One of Phillys finest. So good. I got to see him in 1999 weeks before he passed at Bimbos 365 Club in SF and he and his band burned the house down. Great Post!
elemental and essential. there was a old bar on Chicago's West side that a few folks, including the XRT staff, used to call home. The Bucket of Suds was run by an amazing dude named Joe Danno. Joe played only homemade mixtapes of Jazz in the bar. and, he loved B-3 organ trios and, Charles Earland, most of all. so, for Joe's 80th birthday, folks got together and booked Charles and his trio into the Bucket of Suds. there was no room for a band, but we just shoved some tables aside and the 100 or so patrons crowed into the room just walked around the band to get to the bar. it was steamy hot and loud and the nearest thing i'll ever experience to the fabled roadhouse, juke-joint jazz scene of the past. near the end of the night the bar ran out of beer. and, Joe realized it was his 79th, not 80th birthday. thanks for the Charles Earland jams, Bruce. way cool.
Aw man! Charles Earland! One of Phillys finest. So good. I got to see him in 1999 weeks before he passed at Bimbos 365 Club in SF and he and his band burned the house down. Great Post!