On Monday night Jimmy welcomed two of their three horn players, who had been missing the previous week. I think they're still missing a tuba player and maybe a percussionist. It's hard to be sure because they are spread out so wide on 2 levels along the left wall.
BTW, I don't think it's been mentioned, but I realized while watching Monday's show that the new set is in Studio 6A, not 6B. It hit me when I saw Jimmy make his entrance from the right side of the stage. (He used 6A for the last few months of Late Night, while his Tonight Show set was being built.) On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 1:26:43 PM UTC-4, David Bruggeman wrote: > > The one time I checked this week, I counted 4 members, split across the 2 > levels. I think that's less than 50 percent of the band. Heck, it's less > than the usual number Batiste has with him back at the Ed. > > David > > On Friday, July 24, 2020, 1:10:47 PM EDT, M-D November <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > The Roots are running short-handed? I thought they were just split across > 2 levels, like they were during the Late Night years...? > > On Friday, July 24, 2020 at 2:15:44 AM UTC-4 David Bruggeman wrote: > > At the end of tonight's episode, Stephen noted that the show would be > going on a 2 week break (Fridays have often been repeats while he's been > broadcasting from home), and would not be broadcasting from his house on > his return. > > He will also *not* be broadcasting from the Ed Sullivan theater. > > Presumably this means that he's following the Conan model of finding a > performance space that isn't his home studio. He didn't say anything about > where. > > Tonight's all-to-brief talk with Jon Batiste didn't give any explicit > hints about this. Jon did note he's been checking in from the > Knickerbocker Music Center in Westerly, RI, a small club just across the > border from Connecticut. I suppose they could do something similar to what > East Coast Jimmy is doing with The Tonight Show and a stripped-down Roots > crew. But I'd think they'd try and find some location in the city or a > close-by jurisdiction where it would be permitted. > > David > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/2ea05f98-27d8-40ec-afa4-5b7d344f52a0o%40googlegroups.com.
