Jazz in Sydney....Bridge City Jazz Band at Club Ashfield Friday 18th March 2011....A big Birthday Bash for Banjoist Paul Baker....

This coming Friday the 18th March is another of the big birthday bashes the Bridge City Jazz Band has run for musicians of note , celebrating a "milestone" birthday.
Paul Baker is 65.... he is a world class banjo player and has played with Paul Furniss' San Francisco JB for many years as well as other bands, trios and as a solo performer in nursing and aged care facilities....
So he's in "the banjo chair" on the night.... leading the band initially is Paul Furniss on soprano sax and other reeds, with Frank Watts on piano and Viv Carter on drums  and with John Bates from the Bridge City JB on trombone  it's almost all of the Paul Furniss' San Francisco Jazz Band......
Club Ashfield...5 Charlotte Street, Ashfield, right by Ashfield railway station on the north side...
In the upstairs bistro area....7.30pm to 10.30pm....
There will be selected sit in for musos, a large birthday card to sign and a large birthday cake shared with the audience during the night...
What more do you need?....Get your "glad rags on" and come along.....
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We did a 60th for Paul 5 years ago....

Plus the regular Bridge City Jazz band.....