Robbie Rhodes-Triangle Jazz Blues@Old Town Music Hall 2007

ROBBIE RHODES, piano, lives in Etiwanda, California (near Ontario and San Bernardino), and is an electronics engineer for Lockheed Aircraft Company. Robbie has been a member of the SFJB almost from the start, and began his jazz career at the tender age of 17 with the Newport Harbor Jazz Band at the Honeybucket in Costa Mesa. Robbie is a ragtime virtuoso, and even cuts his own piano rolls by hand! He has also developed modern methods of producing piano rolls using computers and digital recording techniques.

It was a joy to hear him play, AND hear him joking around. The 32nd annual El Segundo ragtime festival is the oldest ragfest in the world!

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• Robbie
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• Triangle
• Jazz
• Blues
• El
• Segundo
• Old
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• 2007

[theorganguy]

his brother up in Victoria, BC, is a regular at Hermann's Jazz Club; not playing Piano, tho :-)

[idasynco]

@theorganguy Wow, what a talented family then. What instrument does he play? I love Victoria BC...I remember playing piccolo there with my 100 member marching band from Medford,OR.  We were in a huge parade. I love the Buchart Gardens.

[rchandos]

Robbie played on our living room piano while he was in high school (Garden Grove), inspired me to take up the instrument.

[idasynco]

WOW, I wish I had a mentor so early!! Lucky!!!!

[idasynco]

I see the Triangle Theater on Canal Street on the New Orleans grid, just south of the French Quarter. Thanks for your comment!

[chloelovescats]

it seems to be a 'ragtime' of John Scott.

[idasynco]

"Triangle Jazz Blues" was written by Irwin P. Leslere and can be found in the "Ragtime and Early Blues Piano" book which has over 300 pages of delightful rags and blues...check it out!!

[theorganguy]

@idasynco it's been a while, but various wind-instruments (trombone, sax, trumpet?) if I had remembered for sure, I would have mentioned it already :-P

[karlpetersen]

Save this one. It doesn't get any better.

[pianiplunker]

This is one of my favorite rags. It has some very jarring harmonies for a piece composed about 1916 or so. The piece was named after the triangle theater in New Orleans where Irwin P. LeClere was employed as a silent movie accompanist. I believe this is the only instrumental piece he wrote.