July 2007 Newsletter
File Photo Butch Berman in full regalia Prez Sez ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ It’s been a long, strange trip ○○○○○○○○○ By Butch Berman ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ To my dear, faithful, loving File Photos friends, fans and supporters, January 2008 Vol. 13, Number 1 What a long, strange trip it’s been. Even though I have no recol- lection of it, on the night of Sunday Oct. 1, after watching “Desperate Housewives” with my perfect dar- ling wife, Grace, I guess I didn’t Butch and Grace Sankey Berman at a feel well, went over to her house, Nebraska Jazz Orchestra concert and had some sort of weird seizure. featuring Greg Abate in March 2005. In this issue of Jazz.... They rushed me to the hospital, and to find out why I had the seizure thank all of you for loving and pray- Tomfoolery: Upcoming concerts.................5 they induced me into a six-day-long ing me back to life, so to speak. I Bill Charlap Trio review............................7 coma. can’t tell you all Joe Cartwright/NJO review................8 They luck- how much I love Jazz on Disc reviews...............................9 ily found only a all of you for lov- little brain lesion ing me so much. Discorama reviews..................................13 that may have I finally Letters to the Editor........................14 caused it, and woke up, got had a bit of a back to my be- time bringing me loved home and out of it. How within a few The Cronin Brothers odd to wake up weeks even in an unfamiliar hospital room sur- played again with my band The rounded by all of your worried Cronin Brothers at the Zoo Bar, to friends not knowing why you were a packed house of caring people there.
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