April - Live

Thank you very much

I would like to take a moment to welcome you and thank you

For coming out, it's very gratifying to see you there

Before we take a brief respire

To have a little taste to come back for the next set

We'd like to, like to have you meet the guys in the band

On piano, Mark Levine

On bass, the swinging John Heard

On drums, the guy that just came

Came out in California to be the death of The Big Apple

And he came into another death trap, Los Angeles

Wait, but I love it anyway, Lew Malin on drums

And on tenor saxophone, a person who I played with years and years ago

I haven't seen since then, I think it was 1957 or something

When he made an album called 'The Way It Was'

It ju- it was just released, and the first time we've met

In how many years? That's been about almost, let me see, '57?

It's been 17 years or something like that

It shows you what kind of a scuffling world it is, man

When you live, uh, in the same city

And you don't see anybody for 17 years

That shows you where it's at, man

And tonight, I'd like to have you meet Warne Marsh on tenor (yeah!)

Yeah