Basin Street Regulars • The Central Coast Hot Jazz Society February 2021 Page 1 February 28th Sunday Event 2 PM Basin Street Regulars Presents: Gino and the Lone Gunmen Gino and the Lone Gunmen is a three- piece band that performs a rockin’ mix of Jazz, Rockabilly, Swing, Blues, Country and Vintage Rock and Roll. Their song catalog includes rockin’ and swingin’ original music as well as your favorites, including everything from Elvis and Buddy Holly to the Cavern Club days of the Beatles. Gino Meregillano is a Southern California The show will be Livestreamed from the guitarist. He comes from a musical family. His Cardinal gazebo on Sunday, February 28th,, first professional stage performance was at beginning at 2:00 p.m. To catch the show, go the age of fourteen. He has thirty years of to Facebook and search for Basin Street experience on guitar, vocals, bass, mandolin Regulars or go to: https://www.facebook.com/ and ukulele playing live, touring, song writing, BasinStreetRegulars/ You will be able to recording and teaching music. He has a watch as soon as we go Live at around 1:50 professional endorsement by Gretsch Guitars. p.m. You will need to have or create a Gino has performed with many top acts Facebook page to view this event live on such as Guana Batz, Hancox, Levi Dexter, Facebook. For information about how to get Rip Masters, Ray Campi, the Rocketz., Cash on Facebook, the next feature. In Hand, and Dave Bennett and the Memphis The show will also be streamed on Speed Kings. The Lone Gunmen have shared YouTube during and will also be available the stage with many other great bands such after the event. To access this Livestream or as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Slim Jim Phantom recording, visit http://pismojazz.com and (Stray Cats), Three Bad Jacks, and Big click on our YouTube channel link on the Sandy. After making their debut at the 2012 Home page, or go to Viva Las Vegas festival the band has been https://www.youtube.com/user/BasinStreetRegulars quickly gaining more fans from around the You do not need a YouTube account to world. The band has three CDs for sale plus watch this on YouTube. two CDs on which they are featured for the Donations will be accepted during this event. Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend Feel free to leave donations at competitions Vol 15 and Vol 18. Get CDs and www.paypal.me/basinstreetregulars t-shirts at https:// ginosguitar.com/merch Gino Meregillano - guitar and vocals Andrew If you would like to attend this concert Verdugo - bass and vocals Bob Sale - drums in person, please e-mail Rhonda at and vocals The website for Gino and the Lone [email protected] or call our house at Gunmen is: www.GinosGuitar.com Gino’s (805)937-8402. We should be able to Virtual Tip Jar: www.paypal.me/ accommodate a live audience rain or ginomeregillano or Venmo to Gino- shine; subject to the latest health Meregillano CDs and music downloads are restrictions. Masks required. Thanks! available on amazon.com, Spotify, iTunes and Apple Music. February 2021 • Page 2 -on Jubilee by the time October rolls around. Jubilee Corner: Our 45th! We have much to be proud of. by Rhonda Cardinal, Festival Director — If you want to be part of the planning Jazz Jubilee by the Sea committee, please contact me at (805) 937- 9402 or e-mail me at [email protected]. There is always room for more help and everyone brings something to the table. Our meetings have generally been on the first Tuesday of the month at 2:00. I hope to hear from you. Rhonda Stanford Redisch We’ve locked in the Pismo Beach Veteran’s Memorial Hall and the Addie BSR’s Most Benevolent Street tent for the weekend of October 22nd- Benefactor 24th, assuming that we will be able to have people gathered indoors by then. We won’t It’s time for us to acknowledge our really know until we get there. very generous benefactor, Stanford Redisch. We found a truly excellent venue in Many of us did not know Stanford Redisch, Grover Beach, thanks to Curtis Reinhart. but he knew us. He attended trad jazz festi- The Grover Beach Community Center is a vals up and down the coast for many years as very large facility (can seat up to 400) with well as many jazz cruises. wall-to-wall wood floors, a full kitchen, BBQ My personal encounter with him was at area, a parking lot, street parking, easy our jazz BBQ in August of 2015. He called access and a full wood-floor stage. The our home phone number to tell me that he pricing is very reasonable, less than the wanted to drop by the BBQ and donate some Vet's Hall, and there is October availability things for the club. I since there is nothing on the books right now didn’t know him at all, due to COVID-19 restrictions. This venue, but I told him that he although in another City, is accessible on was welcome to surface streets from Pismo. You do not need come. He was driving to get on the freeway to get there. Curtis in from Torrance. timed us and it took us 7 minutes to get there On the day of the from Addie Street on the surface streets. BBQ, Jeff’s sister, Sal- There is also the Ramona Park ly, was helping park building in Grover Beach which can seat the cars. We were well 200. This could be our 4th large venue. We underway when Stan- also have the Skyroom at the Edgewater. ford showed up in a With our dates finalized and good fairly large vehicle. venues available, we can now move forward Sally managed to park with hiring the bands and lining up some him with some difficul- ty in very tight quar- hotels. Next month we will be able to give a Stanford Redisch on his 63rd report on the bands we will be featuring. Of ters. But she was Birthday. Note the piano key very gracious and suspenders and Jazz Festival course, this is all subject to changes or alter- t-shirt! ations, depending on how things go, but we polite. are hopeful that we will be able to have a full Stanford proceeded to unload his collec- Continued on page 3 February 2021 • Page 3 Continued from page 2 and to party, and he was one of them!!” tion from his vehicle some odds and ends Sometime after Stanford passed away, from his many cruises and about 10 bottles of the BSR Board received notification that our assorted liquors. These he donated to BSR club was one of the beneficiaries of his es- and we accepted. He came into the back tate, for a very generous amount. More re- yard, and made the rounds for a few minutes. cently, we received another distribution, Linda Shorb recognized him, remembering which closed out the estate. that he was a generous patron and convinced We were not the only organization him to stay long enough to eat and listen to blessed by Stanford’s generosity. He contrib- some music before he turned around for uted to three other local trad jazz societies, home. as well as a national jazz organization. The In late 2016, we got word of his passing balance of his estate went to various Jewish and then a little later, news that we were one organizations, both national and in the South of the beneficiaries of his estate. Bay area where he resided. I’m sure that all According to his LinkedIn profile, Stanford of these organizations were as surprised as worked as an Immigration Services Techni- we were by his bequests. cian for 27 years and also as a radio operator It’s been about two years since we re- for the Federal Government for 33 years. ceived our first distribution and a few months These jobs overlapped in timing. They were since we received our second. It’s about time his day jobs. that we recognize the man who has done so For fun, he hosted jazz radio shows, much to insure the future success of our club. volunteered for festivals, and many other side So next time we are all together, let’s gigs. Here he is in his own words from his raise a glass to BSR’s most benevolent bene- profile: Activities and Societies: Volunteer on factor, Stanford Craig Redisch! many projects; political campaigns, jazz Rhonda Cardinal festivals, educational convention meetings, service club charities! Names are too numerous to mention, some no longer exist! Volunteer Cable Television public access college of the Month: program and newspaper opinion page! Set up of staging, logistics, selection committee, fundraising, venue management, advisory di- LaDean Talcott rection, contractor’s liaison! BSR Grant A man of many interests. It seems like he could have been good friends with our own Writer Charlie Blair. Pat Spino knew him and this is what she said: “Stanford was a kind, gentle, very gen- Life takes you down many roads! Just four erous person who loved jazz and attended years ago, LaDean took the road from many of the Festivals that I was able to at- northern California and moved south to Pismo tend. He always contributed to the Jazz Beach, a life-long dream to live by the sea. Clubs and their Festivals with food, liquor, Friends for over fifty years, Linda and Tom and many other contributions he could help Dutart encouraged her to come to BSR with.