connoisseur series500 Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 Happy Birthday Duke! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Free For All Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Happy Birthday, Glenn! Corn dogs and tater tots tonight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 No corn dogs tonite. Heading to the Monte Carlo Steakhouse!!! Woo-hoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 Have a wonderful day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 happy birthday!!! happy birthday!! happy birthday!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 happy birthday!!! happy birthday!! happy birthday!! Yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted October 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Happy Birthday 2012 DC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Many many happy returns! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 happy birthday!!! happy birthday!! happy birthday!! :party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thanks, everyone! I don't post much here, but I check in almost every day to see the shenanigans. Never a dull moment! Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Is Garduno's still there?The Cooperage?Bob Farley Music?Or was that all last century? Either way, Happy Birthday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 1349654365' post='1231254'] Is Garduno's still there? The Cooperage? Bob Farley Music? Or was that all last century? Either way, Happy Birthday! Garduño's is still here, although the Garduño family had financial problems a few years ago and are no longer the owners. Cooperage is still here. When I moved here in '95 it was pretty much exclusively Salsa bands 2-3 nights a week. Some other styles now, and a fair amount of Salsa DJ stuff. Bob Farley Music closed in '91, and he passed in '04. I still hear folks mention it. Sounds like it was a good shop. Plenty of folks here still living in the last century... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Cooperage used to be a blues bar. I worked there regularly with a band called The Vipers. Glad to hear they're still open, and at least they're providing music for an audiences. A lot of places aren't either one,... Sorry to hear about Bob Farley...I taught there when I was in town, and always got obscenely good deals from the place. The manager was a trumpeter named Pancho Romero, and he, with the store's full backing, put together the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra, which was a fun gig. No idea if either Pancho or the AJO are still around. Farley himslef was sort of a patron type guy, opened a gallery and made it a point to always have jazz gigs at every opening, plus opened it up as a rehearsal space for people he (or Pancho) trusted. Good guy for a musician to know, for sure. Also sorry to hear about the whole Garduño's thing. When they first opened they were a BIG deal, the first real "upscale" SW cuisine place in the area in terms of "trappings". The food was really good too, although I understand it didn't take them too much loner after we left (1984) to devolve into a profitable mediocre consistency. And what's really funny is that when I was living there, a fair number of people were also trying to live in the last century! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Pancho spent several years teaching at a college in Oklahoma, and maybe 10 years ago moved to Las Cruces to teach trumpet and jazz at NMSU. AJO is still going. I've been playing in the band since I moved here, and have been leading it for the last couple of years. Bill Wood told me about the Vipers. He retired from UNM a few years ago, and doesn't play much that I know of, but I see him occasionally, and he's still doing some composing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 My best to both those guys, please! And good to hear that the AJO is surviving (and hopefully thriving). Bill was a consistently fun hang, very smart about a lot of things, but he hadn't heard much post-bop jazz and loved to listen to sides and commentate. There was very little of it that he was not enthusiastic about, especially form a theoretical standpoint, which in that town at that time placed him in a distinct minority. He might not always have gotten the "what" or the "why", but he always go the "how", and I was needing all of that that I could get. Also a huge baseball fan, and as you'd expect, a smart one as well. I don't know how old he is now, but I went out with him and his sons for some sandlot baseball one Sunday afternoon and almost didn't make it back. The Good Doctor was a significantly better pitcher than he let on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted October 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2013 Happy Birthday 2013 DukeCity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted October 6, 2013 Report Share Posted October 6, 2013 Many happy happy returns! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted October 7, 2013 Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 Happy B-Day and best wishes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 happy birthday!!! happy birthday!! happy birthday!! :party: happy birthday!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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