A night in tunisia; morrison bros big bad band; 1983

abc tv don burrows collection pax on sax Another crazy, short-lived club was Sneaky Pete’s; a restaurant jazz-club and the owner is insane. Big diamond rings and gold chains, Canadian, loud. A great intention, but we had no idea he owes everyone thousands of dollars. We soon found out. He wants jazz; five lunchtimes and three nights a week, a quartet with me singing. James, John, Dave Pudney on bass. Our first set is Bossa’s n ballads and dinner music, then we got this floorshow thing happening and are dressed in bow ties and boaters. Straw hats, vests, striped shirts and Saint Louis Blues’ then Indiana’ (which I still don’t know) the history of jazz’ (and James is seventeen) Caravan’ drum solo, fuck we had so much fun but then the boss starts saying “Do you mind waiting till next week for the bread?“ I’m singing My Foolish Heart’ a ballad and we are interrupted by a really loud, angry, owed-lots-of-money to butcher, who’s leaning over the bar and h