St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center Weight Loss Center, Mishawaka, Indiana

Joe Sullivan Jazz Quartet Panama (1945) DISC 6004
Jelly Roll Morton Red Peppers Jersey Joe (1929) VICTOR 23402
Arthur Collins When Uncle Joe Plays A Rag On His Old Banjo (1912) VICTOR 17118
Joe Turner's All Stars It's A Low Down Dirty Shame (1946)NATIONAL
Joe Fingers Carr Down Yonder CAPITOL 1777
Arthur Collins And Byron Harlan When Uncle Joe Steps Into France (1918)Victor 18492
Robins Smokey Joe's Cafe (1955) RCA Victor 6294
Joe Turner Chains Of Love (1951) ATLANTIC 939
Fats Waller And His Rhythm Pan Pan (1941) BLUEBIRD 11383
Joe Raposo. Sesame Street Theme performed by Arthur Fiedler Conductor
Boston Pops Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon Rel. November 13, 2007
Andrea Bocelli, Le Tue Parole, composed by Joe Amoruso Romanza Philips Rel. September 23, 1997
Sills, David Bigs Broadbent, Alan, piano Koonze, Larry, guitar LaBarbera, Joe, drumset Oles, Darek, bass Sills, David, saxophone
December 18, 2000, Live at Birdland with the Saxophone Summit: Phil Markowitz, piano; Rufus Reid, bass; Billy Hart on drums;, and Joe Lovano on tenor.

Mount Ayr, Indiana

Benny Goodman Sextet Benny Goodman Air Mail Special (1941) COLUMBIA 36720
Artie Shaw And His Orchestra The Maid With The Flaccid Air (1945) RCA 28-0406
Helen Humes Airplane Blues (1950) DISC 535
Aaftac Symphonette Londonderry Air V-DISC 204A
Sidney Bechet Blues In The Air RCA 20-1520
Fred Astaire Flying Down To Rio (1934) COLUMBIA 2912 D
Modernaires To Each His Own (1946) COLUMBIA 37063
Modern Jazz Quartet and the Swingle Singers Air for the G string
Art Kassel And His "Kassels-in-the-air" It's All Over Now (I Won't Worry) (1940) Hit 283 of 1940 Bluebird 10750
Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band Bye Bye Blues (1944-) V-Disc 246A
Umbria Jazz 1988 Herbie Hancock,Piano Michael Brecker,Tenor Sax Buster Williams,Bass
Al Foster,Drums Air Dancing

French project "Air" by Guillaume Delaperriere. La Femme D'Argent
Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France Clair De Lune (1947) Vogue LD668-30
Richard Hitter's Blue Knights Hot Aire
Spike Jones Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine (1942) Bluebird 11560
Sleepy John Estes Airplane Blues (1937) DECCA 7354





Well, da Hellkat won another one of dose prizes in a contest. Dis time it was a Halloween trip to Mexico, so we flew down from Avoca on Delta down to Adlanta and den we tranferred to Quexocquatl Airlines to go down to Monterrey. We had a great couple a days der and sampled all da cuisine, especially at Carlos n' Charlies Av. San Jeronimo 1106 Col. Miravalle. The regional specialty is cabrito, which is baby goat, slow cooked over mesquite coals. Steak arrachera, which is a marinated flank steak, is another popular local favorite. We were taking da flight back to Adlanta from Monterrey. It was a twin engine jet, but I can't recall what type. As usual, we snagged a window seat just forward of the starboard side wing. About 20 minutes into the flight, the engine on the wing starts trailing flames. As you can imagine there were a lot of very scared people onboard. The pilot must have shut the engine down or something around that point because the flames died out suddenly, but the flight got very bumpy and it seemed the plane was vibrating. Somehow we limped into Mexico City where we were greeted on the runway with emergency foam and just about every emergency vehicle that the airport must have had access to. The pilot put us down on the ground rather gracefully, and after a quick inspection they towed us to a gate.
For some reason they didn't want anyone deplaning and they kept us in the airplane for about an hour while the mechanic worked on the engine. Now, when I say worked, I mean worked. The guy tinkered with the engine for about 40 minutes, den said something to two confused-looking fellows on the ground off to the side of the wing and then started beating on the thing with a pipe wrench. Nine or ten good whacks later the whole engine tore loose and plunged to the ground. At dis point, dey decided we might be slightly delayed ... and dey let us off the plane into a sealed waiting room (no food, telephones dat looked like dey were from Zappata's time).
Now we could only see the other side of the airplane -- the one away from da problem. Dey left us there for about three hours, telling us that a new plane was coming. Then they announced that they didn't have another plane and that this one was being repaired. As you might guess, somewhere along the line during the next seven hours when they were repairing the plane (duct tape and bailing wire is my guess), the pilots timed out and had to get some time off. So we waited another four hours for a fresh flight crew. We got home, 18 hours late, and I'll never again fly a local airline into that area of the world. Unless da Hellkat wins anudder contest.