Holiday
Well, its been a nice break so far. What a nice way to close things up. Sharon Minemoto and I did a gig with Joani Taylor last weekend that went swimmingly well. We were paying tribute to the 1961 recording of Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley. Everything went fantastic considering how tough that music is. When listening to the actual cd it doesnt sound like the music would be hard to play but boy is that misleading. Sharon worked her ass off transcribing all the material and did a great job. Being on stage with Joani is such a great experience. She is so down to earth and so easy to work with. Paul Townsend sounded amazing, Jodi Proznick as always laid down a ferocious groove as usual and Sharon really played well and you can tell she spent a lot of time with this music.
Thursdays at the club have been doing really well. Another full house for John Doheny followed a full Thursday the week before with The Morgan Childs Quintet. The 2 for 1 entrees is really helping things and of course the quality of the music but its been great in general which is really cool.
It has been great closing down the club so I don't have to worry about drawing during all the events like fireworks and whatever else is going on the next couple of weeks. Its nice to not have to worry about anything at all and with the exception of the reno last year and at Christmas we have never really shut down this long.
Wedding plans are coming along slowly but surely. We still haven't managed to set a date yet but hopefully by the end of next week we will have it all figured out and can actually start planning how the whole thing is gonna shake down. Im excited about it and am looking forward the party...I mean wedding.
Not only is the club closing down for a couple of weeks but when it reopens, Alana and I are heading to NYC for a couple of weeks. I can't wait to get back to the BIG APPLE. God I love it there. We're going to be checking out Cedar Walton and Vincent Herring, Jimmy Green and David Berkman and The Peter Bernstein Trio with Bill Stewart! Yeah!! I can't wait. We're gonna go see a play on Broadway, go to Yankee Stadium and see the Yanks and a bunch of other cool stuff. I don't know if I will be blogging, I may be to busy just hanging out but we'll see.
Okay, I gotta head out, we're going to Port Alberni fishing for big ass Spring Salmon all weekend!
Thursdays at the club have been doing really well. Another full house for John Doheny followed a full Thursday the week before with The Morgan Childs Quintet. The 2 for 1 entrees is really helping things and of course the quality of the music but its been great in general which is really cool.
It has been great closing down the club so I don't have to worry about drawing during all the events like fireworks and whatever else is going on the next couple of weeks. Its nice to not have to worry about anything at all and with the exception of the reno last year and at Christmas we have never really shut down this long.
Wedding plans are coming along slowly but surely. We still haven't managed to set a date yet but hopefully by the end of next week we will have it all figured out and can actually start planning how the whole thing is gonna shake down. Im excited about it and am looking forward the party...I mean wedding.
Not only is the club closing down for a couple of weeks but when it reopens, Alana and I are heading to NYC for a couple of weeks. I can't wait to get back to the BIG APPLE. God I love it there. We're going to be checking out Cedar Walton and Vincent Herring, Jimmy Green and David Berkman and The Peter Bernstein Trio with Bill Stewart! Yeah!! I can't wait. We're gonna go see a play on Broadway, go to Yankee Stadium and see the Yanks and a bunch of other cool stuff. I don't know if I will be blogging, I may be to busy just hanging out but we'll see.
Okay, I gotta head out, we're going to Port Alberni fishing for big ass Spring Salmon all weekend!
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