Taken From East Bay Soul’s Facebook Page posted on September 18th 2011

Sunday Short Story…Well, The Emmy’s are on right now as I write this story. We get the live feed out here in LA because, well most of the shows are shot here and besides, they announce the winners on the radio or local news of competing TV stations. Anyway, this brings me back to when I was nominated in 1989. My good friend and colleague Paul Shaffer were nominated for Outstanding Achievement In Musical Direction for the Late Night With David Letterman’s 7th Anniversary Special.

This was not my first time doing the honors with Paul for Dave’s anniversary shows, but this particular event was shot out here at the Universal Amphitheater instead of the studio at 30 Rock where the nightly shows were done. Had a ton of arrangements to do for guest artists performing plus all the walk ons and offs. Bigger horn section than usual that included Lenny Pickett and David Sandborn. The show was a big success and we were thrilled to get the nomination.

Our award category was in the craft section of the ceremony. That meant it was not on the night of the prime time telecast but the night before in a banquet room in the Pasadena Civic Center. Oh boy. But we got all dressed up and hired a car and driver for the evening. After all, an Emmy’s an Emmy. Right? Once a nominee, always a nominee. Same as The Grammys. Win or lose, we’d make a great evening out of it. We had dinner reservations at The Grill in Beverly Hills after so we passed on the rubber chicken dinner at the ceremony.

Paul was not able to come to LA for the ceremony so I represented both of us. We actually sat at a table of 10 with Phil Donohue and Marlo Thomas. Very nice people. Also, there were several writers from Late Night who were up for awards. Now, comedy writers are a cynical bunch at best, and they were at least kind in their informing Andrea and me that nobody ever wins in our category. They all told us that it ALWAYS goes to “Christmas In Washington At The Kennedy Center”.

Well, our category was now being announced. Who knew, maybe Paul and I were about to turn the tide on”Christmas…” When our names were anounced we got real nice round of applause. Encouraging. Then the moment came… The envelope was opened… “And the winner is…Chistmas In Washington At The Kennedy Center”. All at our table were very supportive at our time of sorrow. Cue the violins. Phil patted me on the shoulder and said he didn’t win the first time either. So after the ceremony we went to Beverly Hills and had martinis and dinner.  After all, I was still an Emmy nominee.  And I still am.

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Horn Driven Radio has just added a new band page for the Boulder Colorado based band “Funkiphino”.  Check it out here at Horn Driven Radio.  Horn Driven Radio is an internet radio station playing the music of Horn based bands.  We have begun to add band pages for the bands/artists that appear in our programming.  Here is the link in Red: Funkiphino

From Lon Bronson:

Tower With The All-Stars!

The time is here – Larry, Doc, Rocco and even David Garibaldi from Tower of Power are joining us for this special concert, Thursday Sept 15! We are taping this performance for the “Doc Goes Vegas” Strokeland CD – we need your screaming voices to be recorded!

Picked as one of the “Best of Las Vegas” 2010 Concerts, please do not miss this one time super concert – we really, really need your support on this one. at GVR this coming Thursday.

As always, no cover – first come, first serve seating – doors open at 8pm, so get there early if you want a good seat!

***Location is at the Green Valley Ranch, Henderson Nevada on September 15th.

For more on the Lon Bronson All-Star Band check out their link on our site at:

Lon Bronson All-Star Band Page

MIKE CLARK gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock’s group in the early 1970’s. Mike became known as a major innovator through his incisive playing on Hancock’s Thrust album, which garnered him an international cult following.

Rob Dixon the VP of Owl Studios, part owner of Indy Jazz Fest Dixon has released two albums on the label with himself as bandleader: What Things Could Be in 2006 and Reinvention: The Dixon-Rhyne Project in 2008. On the latter album, Dixon collaborates with legendary jazz organist Melvin Rhyne, known for playing with T-Bone Walker and Wes Montgomery, among others. Rob is often featured as a sideman with other Owl Studios recording artists, including Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets, the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Cynthia Layne, Steve Allee, Mike Clark, and The Headhunters. He can frequently be heard around Indianapolis at The Jazz Kitchen and the Chatterbox jazz clubs. His composition (with Raeford Gerald) Bump ‘N From The Middle is on the compilation Act 1on Southbound, Ace Records (UK) Tony Adamo’s CD’s, STRAIGHT UP DEAL and WHAT IS HIP? is distributed by Doc Kupka’s (co-founder of Tower of Power) Strokeland Records.

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Below is a video from the session: