Performing live in the KCSM record vault former Jazz in the Afternoon host Dick Conte & Bay Area stalwart Dick Fregulia join forces trading piano duties backed by bassist Steve Webber and drummer Jimmy Hobson. A native of Palo Alto, Dick Fregulia has played a wide variety of jazz piano gigs in the San Francisco Bay Area for over half a century. For 35 years he was featured Thursday nights at Washington Square Bar and Grill in San Francisco's North Beach. His early influences were Ahmad Jamal, George Shearing, and Oscar Peterson, leading to a lifelong admiration for Bill Evans as a trio pianist and Art Tatum as a solo pianist. . Dick Conte arrived in San Francisco in 1961 from his native Connecticut and has since become an integral part of the Bay Area jazz scene with his encyclopedic knowledge of jazz, formidable jazz radio presence (from the fabled KJAZ days to present-day KCSM and KKSF), and his piano performances at clubs, festivals and private venues.
