[Tradjazz] Tradjazz Digest, Vol 17, Issue 14

[Steve Barbone]

> From: Steve Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Tradjazz] Kellso Joins
> To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
> 
> Glad you enjoyed the Poem Jon. Feel free to pass it on (everybody). I wrote
> the original parody 40 years ago during my day gig life, for an Automotive
> Company with a chain of repair shops.  Modified it for jazz musicians about
> 1992 when coming back to my first love. It is not copyrighted.
> 
> Hey Jon, did a wedding last week. A gal from Ascona married a guy from the
> Philly suburbs. They called to book us, from Switzerland several months ago
> as both were/are living there now. Wedding in PA.
> 
> At the wedding I mentioned the Ascona jazz festival and how much the US jazz
> musicians loved it. Gal turned out to have been a volunteer with the event.
> Her first words after we talked about the Festival that were "Do you know
> Jon Erik Kellso?" Hmmmmm
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Kellso replies:
> 
> yaaa....I get around, what can I tell ya? heh heh.
> but seriously, I wonder who that volunteer was.
> I have played the Ascona fest a bunch of times, but not for a few years.
> I am now an engaged man--getting married in March!
> Very excited about it.
> All you musicians--save your virtual breath--the answer is--
> yes, I have a band already picked out. Sorry!
> It's gonna be the Nighthawks.
> surprised?
> happy holidaze,

Hey Jon:

Girl's name is Natasha. She may have met or heard you in NYC also, as she
moved there from Ascona a few years ago and worked in the Big Apple for a
while before moving back to Ascona in 2006.

Tall, willowy, light brown hair, good looking, marvelous smile. Swiss
national with an Italian last name which I forget at the moment. Something
like Romano. Native language for her and her family is Italian and so the
Italians in my band had fun conversing with them in that language. She and
her family also speak perfect English/American. Her mother is an American
expatriate from S.F. Bay area in California

Had I known before hand that she knew you, or knew of you, I would have
offered you the gig even though it was in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Congratulations on your wedding, choice of band and best wishes to the
prospective bride.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone