I don’t remember this gig, and it would appear to be a gig and not a practice judging by our director, Gord Shephard, talking to the crowd and the applause afterward. I am a little surprised at our attire, which looks very much like we all just got back from a camping trip.
“Sonny’s Place” is a composition by Carl Strommen – a sax section feature. The sheet music says it was commissioned by and dedicated to the Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island, New York) Jazz Band, Jerome Dragovich, Director. I don’t know when it was composed and 2019 is just my guess at the date of this performance based on the personnel in the band.
It was a fun piece to play, though our understanding of when the sax section members were to stand and sit back down again does seem to have created some confusion.