Chas, Good post!

I think $40 is what I paid to hear McCoy back in the 70s here in RI at a small concert venue. It was about 5 years ago we paid only $25 per ticket to see John Pizzarelli at Phillips Exeter Academy in NH, yes it was a fund raiser. The icing on the cake was his wife Jessica Molaskey joined in for a few tunes.

We paid about $50 each to hear the late Groove Holmes at the Regatta bar in Boston. Pianist James Williams was about the same price. The best days were in the ‘80s when James Williams was on the staff of Berkeley School of Music. I don’t’ remember what we paid the 3 or 4 times we went but he played at a place called the Starlight Roof lounge in a Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge in Boston. One of the performances an unkown female singer to us at the time Dianna Reeves showed up to sing a few tunes with James. For jazz lovers those were the days my friends, we thought they’d never end.