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There used to be a commercial on TV that asked (totally rhetorically) how long it had been since you had any of its product, and without giving you time to reply said, "Well, that's too long!"
The same question could be asked, with equal fervor and total seriousness, about how long it has been since you've heard the Jim
Cullum Jazz Band. The JCJB played in Austin on January 10, 2001, and it
played again on March 19, 2006, an unconscionable gap of over five
years. But even if the time between concerts had been only one day, you
could still say that that was still too long, as this is a band whose
repertoire is so varied and vast and whose musicality and excellence is
so undeniable that hearing them play every day would still not exhaust
their appeal nor dull the keen edge of their jazz.
The March 19th concert was held at the Riverbend Church in Austin, on Loop 360 (Capital of Texas Highway), at 3:30 pm, and was sponsored by the Austin Traditional Jazz Society and funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. This venue was new to many of the attendees, and its seating arrangements and acoustics (including microphones and a sound engineer) made for an excellent presentation to the over 370 listeners.