[Harp-L] Blues jams

["John F. Potts" <hvyj@xxxxxxx>]

"One thing that hasn't been mentioned is preferential treatment  
towards players that aren't necessarily pros or names but just happen  
to know somebody and be in the club."

Yeah.  But there's another aspect to this.  Some players are a known  
quantity with the ability to hold things together in an  
improvisational setting even when playing with musicians who may not  
be able to keep things  together very effectively on their own.  Such  
players are inevitably  going to get called up and given more stage  
time.