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June
30, 2015
Rupp-Woodson-Burge
at Bungalow Jazz were Outstanding by Palmer Moore
We are such lucky people to be able to
reside in or around Columbus, Ohio - a community very blessed with musical
heritage, talent, and a slew of educational programs to keep the pipe lines
full. There is such a wide
variety of extremely accomplished musicians that we can go watch play in concert
almost 7 days/evenings a week. However, every now and then one of those
concerts - especially the ones you least expect to be more than our normally "great" ones
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transcends even the most passionate imagination. The concert at Becky's
Bungalow this past Friday evening - June 26th, 2015 - was one of those rare
exceptional moments.
Local drummer icon, Jim Rupp, put together a
quartet where two of the other three hadn't even met each other, before.
How in the world can three guys that have never played with each other play
great music??? Well, when you know you are putting three world class musicians
together for the first time in a very
"cool" venue - if you are the fourth, the organizer, and world class
drummer, yourself - Jim Rupp - you just kick
back, provide a little (very tasteful) rhythm, smirk a lot because you know
what's coming - and watch the sparks fly!!!! Andy Woodson - MONSTER bassist,
Randy Burge - MONSTER vibraphone player, and Mark Rubenstein - MONSTER
pianist (where the hell has THIS guy been hiding???)
Folks, it was like
watching an Apollo/Saturn V rocket launch from Cape Canaveral.
At first there was a little smoke, rumbling and musical noise
whilst the new friends "sniffed" each other out with
a "safe bet" or two. Then, as mutual smiles of
acceptance grew the safety cables disconnected, fire blew out
their....ah, instruments - and "off to the moon
they went!" There was even one point that Randy
and Mark were feeding so well off each other that Rupp
asked them to play a duet of Billy Strayhorn's "Isfahan"
- simply brilliant!
It was one of the most
precious moments in my 23 years here in Columbus this old
musical snob has been lucky and privileged enough to have
seen. Palmer Moore - your FJO
volunteer web guy.... (I would have given a special
thanks to Becky, but she was just as surprised and blown away
as the rest of us.)
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