[Tradjazz] Fred Vigorito - HOT CORNET

[DeWitt Peterson]

You need to add Danny Tobias to the TOP LIST.
Pete
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Tradjazz] Fred Vigorito - HOT CORNET


> These guys are great, but I would like to add one more.....Scott Black. 
> But
> then, I may be a little prejudiced.
>
> Bud Black (his old man)
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Bruce McNichols
> Date: 02/11/08 18:30:25
> To: tradjazz at list.okom.com
> Subject: [Tradjazz] Fred Vigorito - HOT CORNET
>
> Recently, I made a posting, indicating my impressions of Fred Vigorito, as
> one of the hottest players around.   It has come to my attention that I 
> may
> have sliightest the likes of Randy Reinhart and Jon-Erik Kellso.
>
> I must say that my mention of those last two players, was prompted only by
> my extreme admiration of the two.  At no time did I mean to slight them.
> Randy and Jon are by far, the stars of present-day traditional jazz.
>  I've had the pleasure of listening to, and performing with, each of them.
> It's hard to admit, but those two are the young guys, in "our" music.
> Randy R. (I say that to distinguish him from Randy Sandke, another of the
> greats in music), is clearly at the top of the music scene these days.
>
> Jon- Erik Kellso first came to my attention when he came into town (NYC) 
> to
> perform with Vince Giordano's Nighthawks (how Vinnie digs up these gems, I
> ll never know). It was then that we booked Jon on as many gigs as we 
> could.
>
> Please know that Jon has been appearing every Sunday evening, at a 
> wonderful
> yet little known, place called The Ear Inn.
>  326 Spring St., New York, NY 10013
>  near. Greenwich St. , New York, NY    212-226-9060
> Jon is there each Sunday evening.  Recently, Lynne and I dropped in.  We
> enjoyed burgers and really dug the funky  scene.  That night, Jon (cornet)
> had with him, the wonderful Matt Munisteri (guitar), Joel Forbes (string
> bass man extrorinaire) and Mark Shane (the best piano man around).
>  We not only had a ball, but we parked on the street, right outside the
> place.
> The Ear Inn, attracts the best people.  We encountered the fine guitar 
> man,
> Chris Flory, ace trombonise, Harvey Tibbs, and our buddy, Jim Fryer
> (trombone, cornet, euphonium) who introduced us to the trombone lady from
> Mighty Aphgrodite, the wonderful band from Canada that's knockin' 'em dead
> on the festival circuit.  These and many more, sit in regularly at that 
> very
> special gig.
>
> Again, my apologies if I deigned to imply that I was rating one player
> against the other.  The botoom line is, all of those that I mentioned, are
> clearly NUMBER ONE.
>
> McN
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