Kansas City was represented Sunday night during Bruce Springsteen's 12-minute set. In the horn section: Mark Pender, native Kansas Citian and member of the Miami Horns and Max Weinberg 7.
Also behind the trumpet: Curt Ramm, 1975 graduate of Shawnee Mission West. Ramm also played in the Sessions Band on the "Live in Dublin" recording.
Allaudin Ottinger of our local cosmic-jazz ensemble the Black Crack Revue remembers this about Ramm:
"We were in ninth grade and in the Broadmoor Junior High jazz band. It was 1972, I think. We played at the Wichita Jazz Festival. Pat Metheny was there. He was like 17 or 18.Gary Burton was backstage. His quartet played. And Cannonball Adderley was backstage, too. So we were standing around in our flag shirts and white pants in the middle of all these great musicians. ... BCR came out of all that energy."
More trivia: Ottinger recalls that another member of that ensemble was Marshall Zieman, older brother of the publisher of The Star. (Thanks for the brownie points.)
| Timothy Finn, The Star
....and Mark's brother Tom played guitar on Sundays for Tony DiPardo's TD Pack Band. I know it's a stretch discussing the Chiefs and Superbowls under the same topic, but the Pender Bros. are cool.
Posted by: mescalaro | February 04, 2009 at 09:32 AM
yeah the pinders are awesome. mark played the solo on they might be giant's "dr. worm".
Posted by: annie onymous | February 04, 2009 at 05:12 PM
Mr. Pender blew the roof off the joint when i saw him with Bruce and the Seger Sessions Band in Des Moines IA in 2005.
Posted by: JJ | February 05, 2009 at 01:31 PM