The Arizona Classic Jazz Society held its March meeting at the Crowne Plaza Phoenix – Chandler Golf Resort aka the San Marcos Hotel with our local Wildcat Jazz Band on stage for the performance.
Rob Wright (ldr/bj), Rob Boone (tb), Ric Peron (tp), Marco Rosano (cl), Ray Templin (p), Evan Dain (bs) and Chris Clementine (dr) subbing for regular drummer Arthur Vint, provided lots of music for the crowd in attendance. With dance floors on either side of the stage and an occasional second line parade, we find this a lovely way to spend a casual Sunday afternoon.
Wildcat Jazz Band member Ray Templin (p) will be heading to Madison, Wisconsin for the May 21st meeting of the Madison Jazz Society’s last event. Unfortunately after almost 40 years, the Society will be dissolving. He will be with Bob Schulz’s Frisco Jazz Band that performed at the Society’s first event in 1984. From Ray:
I've known Bob and have played with him since the 1970s and am looking forward to playing drums with him in Madison. He and I left Wisconsin and Illinois respectively in 1979. Bob ended up in San Francisco playing lead for Turk Murphy for eight years and I ended up in Southern California playing percussion and piano at Disneyland. Over the years I've played 15 or so jazz cruises on piano with Bob's band and have been his festival drummer the last decade or so.
I think that Bob played at the very first
