TT 320: Red Cross
"mop mop"
In the "slightly embarrassing social media post" department: you can bid to hang out with me for an hour. All proceeds benefit the great Jazz Gallery!!!
Next week: Domestic gigs with the fabulous Mark Morris Dance Group.
Tuesday will we perform Pepperland (Beatles arrangements and spectacular dance) at Auburn University
Friday we will perform The Look of Love (Bacharach arrangements and spectacular dance) at the Kaufman Center in Kansas City.
Vinnie Sperrazza is on tour in Europe, so Josh Dion is filling in. A lot of drum lore with these two:
Speaking of drum lore, this social media bit for Buddy Rich makes me laugh and laugh.
Little of what Buddy Rich says should be taken literally. However, the combination of this quote and this photo is art.
Thanks to Hugh John Roberts for snapping a shot of The Look of Love bows in Orange last week with Marcy Harriell and Mark Morris:
Here’s Vinnie, Jonathan Finlayson, and Simón Willson enroute to Orange at JFK:
If you live in Chicago and are determined to keep up with all my activities, on Wednesday next week (November 15) I’m doing a private event where I’m playing/workshopping my through-composed alto sax sonata with Taimur Sullivan in preparation for recording at the top of December. Email me back if you want to attend the workshop.
My recent relaxation reading has included an amusing and perhaps even profound epistolary sports novella by Ring Lardner, You Know Me Al. The book (originally a series for The Saturday Evening Post) was a major hit in 1916, and I believe it to have been a profound influence on much of what I love of American literature written since then. (Certainly Charles Willeford must have read You Know Me Al. )
