Entertaining the Dancers

This is the tail-end of a tune the Sugar Trio would play later in the evening for dancers. Don’t recall the name (if it had one).

It’s a great taste of what it was like to work in San Diego’s “Chitlin Circuit” in the early 1980s. I was all of 22 when this recording would have been made, and most nights would be the only white…

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The Sugar Trio

Sometime around 1984, I discovered a jam session in San Diego at the Bahia Resort Hotel lounge every Sunday night. I think I started going there while I was waiting to turn 21. I remember getting bounced a couple of times and spending a lot of time in the hallway listening through a door. I gave out my business card…

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