Fellow Jazzers, this month we’re having a band from San Francisco for our Sunday “set”. I bet everyone has seen them at one time or another. NGJB is popular worldwide. The band has played in Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Scotland, England, Holland, Japan, Hong Kong & Australia. Making history in a 1989 post-glasnost tour of USSR, NATURAL GAS J.B. was the first American jazz band to play in Siberia. France & Germany with it’s Oktoberfest in Munich joined the list in 1997. The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival was the International highlight of a 1998 Ireland tour.

One of the reasons this band is so popular is that they’ve been playing for 29 YEARS and is strongly imprinted with the influences of their late San Francisco friends, Jazz legends Lu Watters and Turk Murphy. Former Murphy & Watters sidemen have been longtime NGJS players as well as frequent substitutes. Their book is also rich with the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller and a variety of others.

So, all our jazzers, this month we’ll hear stomps, blues, rags, marches, spirituals and dances of all moods and tempos.

Also, a nice surprise is DEE SPENCER, who has taken Pete Clute’s place on the piano. I heard Miss Spencer play while at the Jackson Fest April 25th and I really enjoyed her playing.

This month will really be fun for all !