The first segment from May 17, 1989 at Ephraim’s, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Don Frothingham (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are You’re the One Girl For Me, I’ve Got A Right To Sing the Blues, and I Would Do ‘Most Anything For You. Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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The 7th and last part of the session from May 10, 1989 at Ephraim’s, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (tuba) and Michael Feldman (piano), with a guest vocal by Carrie Mazzy. The selections are “Angry,” “Keep Smiling At Trouble,” and an up-tempo tune the title of which escapes me. Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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The sixth portion of this session, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (tuba), and Don Frothingham (piano). The selections are “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” “Lonesome Road Blues,” and “You’re Lucky To Me.” Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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The fifth segment from May 10, 1989 at Ephraim’s, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Carol Moeller (piano), and John Kafalas (tuba). Carrie Mazzy is also featured on vocals. The selections are “Sugar,” “How Can You Face Me,” and “Honeysuckle Rose.” Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com
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Part IV of the May 10, 1989 session at Ephraim’s in Sudbury, Massachusetts, featuring Michael “Moishe” Feldman (piano) along with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), and John Kafalas (tuba), playing “Sugar Blues,” “Sugar Foot Stomp,” and “Sittin’ on Top of the World.” Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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The third part of the session from May 10, 1989 at Ephraim’s, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (tuba), and Don Frothingham and Michael Feldman (piano). The selections are “As Long As I Live,” “Squeeze Me,” and “Lady Be Good.” Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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Part II of the session from May 10, 1989 at Ephraim’s Restaurant in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Don Frothingham (piano), and John Kafalas (tuba). The selections are “Undecided,” “One Rose That’s Left In My Heart,” and “The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else.” Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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The last tune from May 3rd, 1989, followed by the first two selections from the following week, at Ephraim’s in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (tuba), Milt Steinmetz and Don Frothingham (piano), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Who’s Sorry Now,” “Breezin’ Along With the Breeze,” and “If I Had My Way.” These last two tunes appeared in program #15, back in 2008 — however, they should sound better in this program, because I have a better digital audio converter than the one I used to use when I originally started the Jimmy Mazzy & Friends podcast. Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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The third segment from our May 3, 1989 session at Ephraim’s, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Milt Steinmetz (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Mighty Blue,” “Copper-Colored Gal,” “Sittin’ On Top of the World,” and “A Hundred Years From Today.”
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The second segment from May 3rd, 1989 at Ephraim’s in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (tuba), Don Frothingham (piano), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out,” “I Know That You Know,” and “Darkness On the Delta.” Send questions or comments to podcast @ kafalas.com.
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We begin the session from May 3rd, 1989 at Ephraim’s in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (tuba), Don Frothingham (piano), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Runnin’ Wild,” “Dinah,” and “Monday Date.” Send questions or comments to podcast @ kafalas.com.
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The fourth segment from this session, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), John Kafalas (trombone), and Don Frothingham (piano). The selections are “Melancholy,” “I Ain’t Got Nobody,” “Blue Evening,” and “Big Butter and Egg Man.” Send questions or comments to podcast @ kafalas.com
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The second part of this session from Ephraim’s, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), John Kafalas (trombone), and Don Frothingham (piano). The selections are “My Mother’s Eyes,” “Lover Come Back To Me,” and “Thou Swell.” Send questions or comments to podcast @ kafalas.com.
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The third part of the session from 11/2/88, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), Carol Moeller (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums). This program is a little longer than usual, just over half an hour, and contains five selections: Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere, Sittin’ On Top of the World, My Silent Love, I Double Dare You, and Believe It, Beloved. Also, I hope you notice an improvement in sound quality, because I have a new digital audio converter — an Apogee Duet, which is a much better piece of equipment than the one I’ve been using since I started this podcast back in 2006. I’m also doing the production in Ableton Live instead of GarageBand.
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Part VI of the session from 9/28/88 with Jimmy Mazzy on banjo and vocals, Fred Lind on cornet, Dr. Paul Meymaris on clarinet, Carol Moeller on piano, John Kafalas on tuba, Stu Grover on drums, and we were joined by a special guest, Terry Keef, on alto sax. The selections are “Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere,” and “Puttin’ All My Eggs In One Basket.”
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Part V of the session from 8/17/88. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), an unidentified clarinetist, Don Frothingham (piano), John Kafalas (tuba), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Jeepers Creepers,” then a piano interlude including “Little Rock Getaway,” followed by “Sweet Girl,” then “Varsity Drag.”
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We continue with the session from March 30, 1988, with Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Carol Moeller (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), Mark Behre (tuba), Stu Baird (cornet), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “I Double Dare You,” “I Want a Little Girl,” and “Get Out and Get Under the Moon.”
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This is the third part of the session from March 30, 1988. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham and Carol Moeller (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). There’s also a guest vocal by Carrie Mazzy on the first tune, “You Tell Me Your Dream, I’ll Tell You Mine.” The other selections are “Puttin’ All My Eggs In One Basket,” “Anytime, Any Day, Anywhere,” and “Just a Gigolo.”
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We continue with the earliest session I recorded at Ephraim’s: March 30, 1988. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “You’re Just Pretending,” a blues that I don’t know the name of [note: Thanks to John Clark, who identifies it as “Stackolee”… ed.], and finally, “Shoe Shine Boy.”
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This is the first music I recorded at Ephraim’s, from 3/30/88. This evening, the musicians were Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are Blue Turning Grey, Back In Your Own Backyard, and Just You, Just Me.
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This program completes the April 13, 1988 session, featuring Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Ole Miss,” “Undecided,” “Blue Turning Grey,” “Goody-Goody,” which features a vocal by Carrie Mazzy, and “My Blackbirds are Bluebirds Now.”
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This program is Part V of the session recorded on April 13, 1988 at Ephraim’s. The musicians are Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “How Could I Be Blue?,” “I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody,” and a tune the name of which I’m not sure of.
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We continue with the session from 4/13/88, with special guest Jean Phillips Kelly at the piano for the first tune, “You’ve Changed,” which was a particular favorite of cornetist Fred Lind, who is featured. After that, Don Frothingham returns to the Steinway for “Sweet Girl” and “Louisian-I-A.” The other musicians are our usual cast: Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), and Stu Grover (drums).
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This program continues with the session from 4/13/88 and features Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind (cornet), Paul Meymaris (clarinet), John Kafalas (trombone), Don Frothingham (piano), Al Ehrenfried (bass), and Stu Grover (drums). The selections are “Ol’ Pappy,” “If Dreams Come True,” and “Breezin’ Along With the Breeze” (the title of which I remembered after I’d already done the voiceover).
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This program is the sixth installment of the session recorded on May 11th, 1988. It features Jimmy Mazzy (banjo/vocals), Fred Lind and Jeff Hughes (cornets), John Kafalas (euphonium), and Don Frothingham (piano), with a vocal by Carrie Mazzy on the last tune. The selections are “I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me,” “Maizy,” and “Oh Me, Oh My, Oh You.” Send questions or comments to podcast@kafalas.com.
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