A local musician owned coffee shop has live jazz every Saturday afternoon. This past weekend was a trio - two basses and a drummer. Tony Grey played his Monarch 6 string and Stephen Trohoske was on a Fender Jazz.
That was the second time I saw Tony play, the best one word description I can use is 'clean'. As solid as any jazz guitarist playing lead. Great player.
Being local you wouldn't really know who Steve is. Dude is also a great bassist and composer, and a hard working SOB to say the least. He plays more gigs in a month than a lot of dudes around play in half a year. With all the talk about where tone comes from this guy drives home the tone in the fingers argument. I've seen him in a handful of clubs, at a handful of outdoor shows, through 3 different rigs. His tone is unmistakeably his tone, he sounds like Steve everywhere. Bigger than that he enjoys every note, every night, even if it's the 10,000'th time he's played a tune.
So next Saturday night (different venue) they will be adding Dwayne Dolphin (Wynton Marsalis and others) on piccolo bass, a guitarist, and two percussionists.....I'm pretty stoked for this. It's like Spinal tap meets Iron Maiden and they all play jazz hehe - rhythm bass, lead bass, 2nd lead bass - awesome!
Has anyone else heard Tony or Dwayne live? (If you've heard Steve we probably know one another
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