LATIN NIGHT WAS A SUCCESS at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, from the Outragous8!
It was truly a celebration of LATIN MUSIC last night with Jackie Gibson premiering a brand new chart of Aquellos Ojos Verdes in Spanish, that Rocky just finished up!
The band was on fire doing an amazing job! Everybody soloed on SAMBA FOR SAMMY, one of the Outrageous8's fav charts and an original composition written by Harry Smallenburg about his granddaughter Samantha. Phil Romo on Bass kept us very steady on that one and Tony “BOOM BOOM" Pia was really feeling it!
All in all, the band and the crowd at Catalina Jazz Club had a wonderful time. These days, when it's really quite a "thing" to get out to a live Club for music, more than ever, we are so grateful for the people who do come out to hear our music and support musicians and the clubs!
Amazing to see the smiling faces of Herb Gore, Larry Davis and Steve Rupert, Nora Paradiso (number 1 fan of the 8!!), Beverley Church Hogan, MaryAnn Biddle and her husband John, who brought a big party of fun with them! Cece and Forrest Linder drove down from VENTURA to see the Outrageous8. Thank you guys sooo much for making the drive, it was amazing to see you!! Bruce Carter made it out with his friend January, and Ben Lewis brought his friends down for dinner and a Latin show! Grace Kono-Wells made it out a little later and we had fun catching up.:) Jackie's friend Gina made it out to the show and we were soo happy to see her. Stephanie Frey and her son Aiden, a trumpet player in high school himself, made it out and we were soo happy to have them come down. Thanks to all who made it out!
It's been a HOT couple of weeks and it was nice to be inside in the AC,.having a magical music experience. It made me giggle last night when I said to the crowd “now let's slow it down...for just a second” and we did a beautiful arrangement by Rocky of STARDUST, which turned out to be a crowd favorite!!! In addition, we had some amazing response to 'S WONDERFUL, a Harry Smallenburg Latin take on that classic tune, with quite an amazing Flute solo by Richard Walker. Speaking of which, we are so thrilled that Sam Morgan is on tour right now and we were lucky enough to have Dennis Mitcheltree on Tenor and he just killed it! Jay Stolmack was sitting in for Ron Cyger and he did a killer solo on Alto on BLACK ORPHEUS, another classic Latin tune!
Jackie and Al did an elegant duet of BESAME MUCHO, which is so smooth and romantic. It tugs the heart strings. Another crowd fav was Al Timss’ version of AUTUMN LEAVES.. Larry Lippold was outstanding on trumpet. By the way, we recorded that tune remotely, during COVID. and Michael Rosen and I produced a super fun Video that all can see on our youtube channel, starring THE DUKE OF SMOOTH, Al Timss.
Here's a huge shoutout to those folks who secretly bought tickets to support the band, even though they didn't come down. You know who you are and we are indebted to you for your support...
We do hope Manny is feeling better. Sending you love Manny and Daniel Gonzales who did a great job mixing us and Luis at the Bar
Next stop, NEWPORT BEACH, CAMPUS JAX, August 14th Get your tix...(Click below)
Our thanks always to Kathryn Hopkins who is our marketing manager for the band and Harry Smallenburg and Rocky Davis for providing us with these outlandishly beautiful charts to sing and play
xoxoxo Angelita
