Stevedore Stomp - High Sierra JB

Stevedore Stomp - High Sierra Jazz Band 1987
From a concert in Denver Colorado the High Sierra Jazz Band plays “Steverdore Stomp”
Three Rivers, CA, the “gateway” to the beautiful Sequoia National Park, is located in Central California, In the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. In 1976, a groups of friends from this small town formed a new band, the High Sierra Jazz Band. An interesting mix, a rancher, a park ranger, an inventor, a salesman, a social worker and a pianoplayer wanted to play jazz. In 2007 more than 30 years later this band became and still is one of the most succesful traditional jazz bands in the USA.
I had been friends with the band since the late seventies. We always met at jazz festivals and in sessions we musically mixed and mingled.
Leader Al Smith could not make it on this trip so I was very pleased to substitute for him this weekend in Denver.
Someone taped several of the performances and after more than 20 years on one of my shelves it is certainly fun to see it again and I decided to share some with you.
On trombone is Vic Kimzey, Bruce Huddleston piano, his brother Stan banjo, Earl McKee sousaphone and Charlie Castro drums and I, Bob Erwig, am the substitute cornetplayer and appointed leader.