The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #36863 Message #1828747
Posted By: jimmyt
06-Sep-06 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where was your first time
Subject: RE: Where was your first time
I got picked up by a friend's father that played banjo and trombone in a "dixieland" sort of group and played the Junction City Minstral in Junction City, Ohio in the pit band for a real old time minstral still in blackface in 1963. (Later, the movie Brubaker was filmed there) I was 14 at the time and played trumpet by ear. I played with these guys for quite a while many times in some pretty rough bars in southeastern Ohio. Mostly old standards, and dixieland jazz. What a memory I have of this time! Many evenings they would launch into a song and give me a solo on the second or third verse. A lot of time I had NEVER heard the song before. Makes you learn to listen to chord progressions.