Muggsy Spanier - Beale St Blues - Jazz Casual, 1963

Muggsy Spanier was a local Bay Area figure in the 1950s. He lived in the Sausalito bohemian community and was a big supporter of the local Shakespeare festival. He jammed at Pier 23 and was heard at Club Hangover including their Saturday night broadcasts. This is from a 1963 Jazz Casual TV broadcast with superlative musicians then living and performing in San Francisco: • Drummer Earl Watkins – everybody’s favorite jazz drummer in the City. • Bob Mielke -- took centerstage among the second-wave Revivalists. • Pops Foster – Popular veteran of too many bands to list. • Piano monster Joe Sullivan -- quietly residing Frisco. • Clarinet player Darnell Howard -- His bona fides date back to the 1920s with Jelly Roll Morton the 1940s with Earl Hines. Both Howard and Sullivan were closely associated with the late Richard Hadlock. A Jazz writer, journalist, musician, teacher and Bay Area Jazz broadcaster for 60 years at least, Hadlock was close with both getting some of their later recor