Original Drummer with Vince Giordano’s New Orleans Nighthawks
This was one of the best musicians I’ve ever known (Don Ewell)
Davis and Lew Micallef (it was an honor to be partners with this gentleman)
Ruth Miller (life partner and best friend) - very sexy
Ruth, Stan King and me - the good, the bad and the beautiful
Early Days in Indiana
jazz kids (Kim Cusack, Mike Walbridge, me and Pappy Koch circa 1961)
Christmas 1961 (look at mom’s knick-knacks)
The Salty Dogs (me 17 years old)
Dapogny, please remove your slide
Chicago
Chicago’s Night Life Magazine
Society Page one summer in Chicago
Cover of my first record album
I’ve always loved marquees
My first band, Pappy, Jen, Ed and me
West Coast
Band at the Fire Station Inn in Anaheim
Look at me on another marquee
Playing with Turk Murphy’s Jazz Band
New York
Program for Big Apple Circus (look at the composer)
At La Mama Theater rehearsing for the Waldo/Carter musical “Warren G” (John Gill, Steve Knight, Wayne Jones, Vince Giordano, Lew Green, me and Kim Cusack)
Mike Peters Gypsy Swing with great guitarists (Wayne Wright and Carmen Mastron)
At Carnegie Hall I was a Versatile Entertainer
Celebrities
The best musician that I have ever met
Turk, his washboard and me
I was a star in my very early 20s
On stage - Redbone and me around the fire
Tom Waits for no man
Doc Cheatham, Herb Hall, Truck Parham, Freddie Coleman and Loren Korevec at the St. Louis Ragtime Festival
The great Georg Brunis, me (bass), Chris Clifton (Miss Lil called him Bleached Pops) and Red Saunders (famous bandleader at the Club DeLise)
This is the original Assunto family (they came in for 3 weeks and lasted a year)
The George Segal Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey
A Jelly Roll Morton suitcase trio with Tommy Benford and Herb Hall
Frank Vignola recording his first album at 27 Washington Square North
Things of Interest
Look and Learn?
Maestro Davis conducting the National Company of Whoopee
A young composer at work
A very nice article about my band in Chicago at the “Old Town Gate”
Early days in Chicago with a big set of drums
In the band room at Bourbon Street attired by the Accent Men’s Shop
Playing drums with George Probert’s “Fire House Five” recreation band
