Tim, I'm a flugelhorn fan, I mean, come on, it's a trumpet with nice manners. Mangione got me into it in a different kind of way; it was Gerry Niewood his late, great, his sax player who made the connection. And Ester Satterfield. God, she has a voice! It's that sweet tone. Kath was an alto sax and flute player when I first met her in 1975; our musical tastes kept expanding from there. We heard Mangione's Orchestra in S.F., at the Great American Music Hall ( where we also heard, at different times; Maynard Fergeson, Count Basie, and Taj Mahal, with a Howard Johnson led tuba section- Taj was playing with a big and, Rudy Costa his reed player- awesome band!) Kath and I would hit Keystone Corner; Yusef Lateef, Richie Cole......
Tim, I'm a flugelhorn fan, I mean, come on, it's a trumpet with nice manners. Mangione got me into it in a different kind of way; it was Gerry Niewood his late, great, his sax player who made the connection. And Ester Satterfield. God, she has a voice! It's that sweet tone. Kath was an alto sax and flute player when I first met her in 1975; our musical tastes kept expanding from there. We heard Mangione's Orchestra in S.F., at the Great American Music Hall ( where we also heard, at different times; Maynard Fergeson, Count Basie, and Taj Mahal, with a Howard Johnson led tuba section- Taj was playing with a big and, Rudy Costa his reed player- awesome band!) Kath and I would hit Keystone Corner; Yusef Lateef, Richie Cole......