Earlier this month, ASMAC Vice Presidents Milton Nelson and Jeff Kellem co-hosted our regular ASMAC First Wednesday Hang, 3 September 2025, 7–10pm PDT during Flight 584 Big Band’s rehearsal night at The Mayflower Club in North Hollywood, CA, USA. We provided large pizza pies from Victorio’s Ristorante. Some highlights:
ASMAC Board and Advisory members attended:
- President Gayle Levant and her husband John Richards
- co-Vice Presidents and co-hosts Milton Nelson & Jeff Kellem
- Treasurer Liz Finch
- LC Powell
- Glenn Jordan
- Chuck Fernandez
- Advisory board member Conrad Pope
Community charts by the following were read down:
- Nan Schwartz
- Milton Nelson
- J. Ryan Kern
- Rick Hils
- Samson Trinh
- LC Powell
- Flight 584 pianist David Eddlestein
- Flight 584 guitarist Ron Hershewe (but we ran out of time; hope to hear his new arrangement another time).
With so many new charts, we ended up missing having the lovely Dave Berges and Gina Cantamessa sing this time. Always fun to hear perform and look forward to hearing them, again, at a future hang at The Mayflower Club.
We hope to see you on a future First Wednesday Hang. The next one, as of this writing, is this Wednesday, 1 October 2025, co-hosted by ASMAC Vice Presidents Milton Nelson and Jeff Kellem with Board member Evita Wagner.
John Mitchell’s Flight 584 Big Band
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