Al: Funny . . . I know exactly what she meant by that. We share strong opinions.
Yes, that was the same Anna I knew. I recall meeting them one night in D.C. while I was attending the FBI National Academy at Quantico, and was visiting a band's gig.
You and I may have been at the same festivals - I did Helena and Great Falls several years while living in Whitefish and later after returning to SoCal. I played with Montana's Good Tyme Jazz band out of the Flathead Valley. Did Sun Valley, too.
I grew up on the FH5+2 - spent every Friday evening sitting right in front of them at the Beverly Caverns in L.A. I have everything they recorded (I think . . .).
During the past two years, I had occasion to play twice with George Probert (FH5+2 sop sax), who was subbing in the band with whom I play, once he was a guest artist at a festival and once when our leader asked him to play a gig with us when we couldn't find a decent trombone - I switched to alto for the day. I owe my whole life of soprano saxophone playing to George Probert.
I also met Danny Alguire (FH5+2 trumpet) once when our MT band played a jazz club near Portland. The FH5+2 was a wonderful band. Frank Thomas's son Ted plays cornet locally with a nice TRAD group (called Gremoli).
For other readers NOT familiar with the Firehouse Five plus Two, they were a group of animators and other such film people originally from the Disney Studios. Their leader, Ward Kimball was an Academy Award winner and trombonist. Their pianist was Frank Thomas - Ward and Frank were the among the original "old men" of the Disney animation team. DAVE
Yes, that was the same Anna I knew. I recall meeting them one night in D.C. while I was attending the FBI National Academy at Quantico, and was visiting a band's gig.
You and I may have been at the same festivals - I did Helena and Great Falls several years while living in Whitefish and later after returning to SoCal. I played with Montana's Good Tyme Jazz band out of the Flathead Valley. Did Sun Valley, too.
I grew up on the FH5+2 - spent every Friday evening sitting right in front of them at the Beverly Caverns in L.A. I have everything they recorded (I think . . .).
During the past two years, I had occasion to play twice with George Probert (FH5+2 sop sax), who was subbing in the band with whom I play, once he was a guest artist at a festival and once when our leader asked him to play a gig with us when we couldn't find a decent trombone - I switched to alto for the day. I owe my whole life of soprano saxophone playing to George Probert.
I also met Danny Alguire (FH5+2 trumpet) once when our MT band played a jazz club near Portland. The FH5+2 was a wonderful band. Frank Thomas's son Ted plays cornet locally with a nice TRAD group (called Gremoli).
For other readers NOT familiar with the Firehouse Five plus Two, they were a group of animators and other such film people originally from the Disney Studios. Their leader, Ward Kimball was an Academy Award winner and trombonist. Their pianist was Frank Thomas - Ward and Frank were the among the original "old men" of the Disney animation team. DAVE
