It is a little known fact, quite probably untrue,  that all saxaphone players have the same level of appeal for the ladies. Not much. Rotten  Ronny the Gippsland cad was one such, before his unfortunate demise. He was  descended from a semi famous father, Ronnie senior, who made his name playing  the Invisible Man in a silent movie, having passed the audition with flying  colours by not turning up and saying nothing. Sent his agent to collect the  dough whilst sunning himself on the Costa Del Backbeach at Portseadarling for  most of the 1920's. Poor Rotten Ronny was left to languish as third sax in the  house band of Mme Trixie La Belle's Academie de Danse back in Altona West. He  played a mournful saxaphone, to little effect. But I digress.
Sometime ago, Ronny caught the eye of the notoriously  promiscuous Hortense one night, whilst she was dancing wildly to a reggae  version of Darktown Strutters Ball, or something. And promptly returned it, so  he wasn't entirely a cad after all. One thing led to another, and soon he was  saxaphonically serenading her from the street below her bedroom window, a  musical enterprise which eventually earned him a ticking off at the local  Magistrates, three demerit points for failing to stop after fourteen choruses of  Footprints, and the partial admiration of the aforementioned Hortense, who was  trying to sleep it off. I am not sure which it was being slept off.
If you have read this far, you will realise I  didn't attend a jam session this week. I am sure it was fabulous. Might be a  coincidence.
 
 
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