SPRING STREET JOYS, PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE! (featuring JON-ERIK KELLSO, SCOTT ROBINSON, JAMES CHIRILLO, RUSSELL HALL; DANNY TOBIAS, DAN BLOCK, KELLY FRIESEN, PAT O’LEARY, 2016 and 2023)

Oh, The Ear Inn . . . shrine for swing among friends.

The Glorious Past (June 19, 2016) —

DIGA DIGA DOO, with Danny Tobias, cornet; Dan Block, clarinet; James Chirillo, guitar; Kelly Friesen, string bass:

The Recent Past (April 9, 2023) —

HAPPY FEET, with Jon-Erik Kellso, Puje trumpet; Scott Robinson, bass saxophone AND trumpet; James Chirillo, guitar; Russell Hall, string bass:

and!

this coming Sunday, May 7, the EarRegulars will be Messrs. Tobias, Block, Chirillo, and the wonderful bassist Pat O’Leary . . . wow, yeehaw, and hot damn!

I’ll be there. Will you?

May your happiness increase!

RAGGED TIGER SIGHTED ON SPRING STREET! (The EarRegulars: JON-ERIK KELLSO, SCOTT ROBINSON, JAMES CHIRILLO, RUSSELL HALL at The Ear Inn, April 9, 2023)

Don’t be afraid. It’s only hot jazz of the highest order, 2023 style, performed by the EarRegulars at The Ear Inn (326 Spring Street, Soho, New York City): Jon-Erik Kellso, Puje trumpet; Scott Robinson, bass saxophone; James Chirillo, guitar; Russell Hall, string bass.

And by the way, hold that tiger!

And if there’s no mail in the mailbox, today is, after all, a national holiday: Scott Robinson’s birthday. We celebrate him as a soaring creator and deeply kind, funny human being. “Thank you for being born!” as someone once said.

May your happiness increase!