Jazz Central Jazz Jam delivers

Here is another report from the jazz trenches - Sunday, 9-26-10, found the Jazz Central Jazz Jam with no saxophones, not one, instead there was John Hampton Wagner on trumpet (John being the usual M.C., vocalist, trumpet & flugle horn player), Rodderick Wilson on trumpet and flugle horn and Dale Carpenter on trumpet. Rodderick has been showing up more frequently to participate in the jams [and he has a new CD out] and we are always glad when Dale Carpenter stops in (which he has done a couple times recently) - these three trumpet players were in rare form in that they delivered six of the best consecutive solos that I (or WDPS Big Band host Conrad Jessee) have heard at Jazz Central since I started regularly attending in 2001. I always say the last hour is the best so even when you cannot get down until 11:00 p.m. on a Sunday, and sometimes I cannot, it is worth the trip. Wow!