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 everybodys favorite jazz drummer in the City. Bob Mielke took centerstage among the secondwave 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