Jazz Musician
The live jazz and laid-back dance and dining rooms were still cool then, and so was the little gregarious trumpet player who fronted the band that later grew to six musicians and three female singers. He would become music director at the Gaslight for nearly twenty years.
"Joe was a great entertainer and a great personality on stage", recalls Bill Thayer, longtime Arlington Park official and member of the Gaslight Lounge. "His music and personality kept the Gaslight going. They came to see Joe Kelly." After a break from one show downtown, Thayer, upon the suggestion of friend Ted Kowolski, asked Kelly if he'd come out to Arlington to call the horses to the post with his trumpet for the inaugural Arlington Million in 1981.
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