Spiegle Speaks The Gassers were very fortunate and privileged to have had a 16 year friendship with Spiegle Willcox and to have shared many wonderful
U.S.S.R – Memorable Events NGJB met the Leningrad Dixieland in 1987 at the Sacramento Jubilee and they helped immensely to arrange our tour of the
Oriental Odyssey How’s this for a truly international adventure? During a 10-day gig at the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong in 1990, the Natural Gas
Audience Rapport Friday Harbor, WA is a lovely village on the waterfront in the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound. NGJB was playing a festival
Jazz, Sex, and Birds It is well known that Lu Watters’ Yerba Buena Jazz band, in the 1940s, became a phenomenally successful ensemble as America’s
Alaska Memories The fourth of July weekend of 1980 found the NGJB in Juneau, Alaska, on the occasion of the city’s centennial celebration. The band’s
Woof Woof It was July, 1990 at the Bix Fest that NGJB first heard the very popular Uncle Yoke’s Black Dog Jazz Band. The Gassers
