User:Zoot Bruno

I took the name "Zoot" with a flippant kind of attitude when I joined a jazz chat group in 2000 or so. As it worked out, the name lasted longer than several computers , ISP services, and addreses. I have become a generic "Zoot" but I am used to it now. It is disconcerting to come into this site and find that I don't exist. I have found that I also don't exist, I am a footnote deleted or not found in the Wikipedia search engine. I have been attempting to rectify this with little success so far. My name is Bob Bruno. I don't actually wear a zoot suit or a wide brimmed hat with a pencil mustashe, a pocket full of change , or a long chain dangling from my pocket with a watch attached. It is a cartoon character, perhaps an image of a jazz song that was popular in around 1961 called Killer Joe by the "Jazztet". That song was so hip to me then. I did have the occasion of hearing the group play it live at "Birdland". It was a Friday night and "Symphony Sid" was broadcasting a live radio show from the club. I had called out from my table, a table that was separated in a way to show that I was probably underage , which I was at the time being sixteen. Sid said, "The children are calling for Killer Joe," and the band went into the song. Benny Golsen didn't recite the descriptive paragraph that he had used on the LP but the essence of the music and the thrill of New York City worked the magic for this young man from Maryland.