November 17th, 2006Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band wrapped up the Party At The End Of The World Tour on Thursday night with a show from the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa, Florida.
View the set list and show notes from the concert here.
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November 14th, 2006Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band played their first show in West Palm Beach, Florida since February 24, 2001 on Tuesday night at the Sound Advice Amphitheatre. Jimmy dedicated the show to his close friend Ed Bradley, who died last week at the age of 65.
View the set list from the show here.
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The Tour continues on Thurday, November 16th in Tampa, Florida.
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November 11th, 2006The Palm Beach Post has a review of Tuesday night’s show in West Palm Beach, Florida: “Buffett’s high note honors Bradley”
It seemed a fitting tribute to a fallen musician friend: A tambourine with a flower tied to it hung from a lonely, unmanned microphone stand. But forget about a somber tribute – Jimmy Buffett wasn’t having any of that.
“Some thought we should have a moment of silence,” Buffett, pretty much the poster child for all things anti-somber, said Tuesday night at Sound Advice Amphitheatre. “I say, to hell with that. A night of music is more appropriate for my friend Teddy Bradley.”
Read the entire article here.
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November 10th, 2006Jimmy Buffett will open a Margaritaville Cafe in Phoenix, Arizona next summer. The 20,000 square-foot restaurant will be located in Glendale’s massive shopping and entertainment plaza – The Westgate City Center.
The Arizona Republic has more: “Buffett’s Margaritaville Café coming to Valley”
Local Parrot Heads will be rejoicing over Westgate City Center’s newest addition.
Laid-back songster Jimmy Buffett is bringing one of his Margaritaville Cafés to the massive shopping and entertainment plaza that opens in Glendale next week.
The two-story restaurant, which will feature patio seating and a balcony overlooking the center’s $5 million Bellagio-like water fountain, is set to open next summer.
Read the entire article here.
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November 9th, 2006
Jimmy lost a close friend today. Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes.
Bradley is survived by his wife, Patricia Blanchet, of New York. He married
Blanchet, an artist, in 2004 at their Aspen, Colorado, home with Jimmy Buffett providing the wedding music, according to a column in the Rocky Mountain News.
He introduced Jimmy onstage at the Big Apple to the Big Easy concert at Madison Square Garden.
As a jazz afficionado and lover of musical improv, he appeared on stage at the Margaritaville Cafe in New Orleans in May ’06 during Jazz Fest week. With Little Feat tackling the song on the spot, he took the mic for a sponanious rendition of his unofficial theme song…the R&B classic by the Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man” with his friend Jimmy standing nearby, beaming a grin.
Bradley, dies of Lukemia at age 65. Nov 9, 2006.
Update – From the NY Times: Buffett was with Bradley in his hospital room when he died:
Though Mr. Bradley had largely concealed his illness, he and his wife, Patricia Blanchet, had reached out in recent days to some of his closest friends — including Charlayne Hunter-Gault of National Public Radio (who traveled to his bedside from her home in South Africa) and the singer Jimmy Buffett (who rushed to New York to be with him following a concert in Hawaii).
Mr. Buffett said he told Mr. Bradley on Wednesday that “the Knicks and the Democrats won,” eliciting a smile from Mr. Bradley, who by that point could barely speak.
“I made the mistake once of letting him get onstage with my band, and he never stopped doing it,” said Mr. Buffett, who was introduced to Mr. Bradley 30 years ago in Key West, Fla., by a mutual friend, Hunter S. Thompson.
Mr. Bradley had many nicknames throughout his life, including Big Daddy, when he played defensive end and offensive tackle in the 1960s at Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania); but his favorite, Ms. Hunter-Gault and Mr. Buffett said, was Teddy Badly, which Mr. Buffett bestowed on him onstage the first time Mr. Bradley played tambourine at his side.
“Everybody in my opinion needs a little Mardi Gras in their life,” Mr. Buffett said, “and he liked to have a little more than the average person on occasion.”
“He was such a great journalist,” Mr. Buffett added, “but he still knew how to have a good time.”
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