If I didn’t have a bunch of gear, I could walk to work
The kickoff to Fork at 532’s music program was an unqualified success. (That’s the new wine bar in the downtown of the city where I live, Columbus, Indiana.) The sound violinist Carolyn Dutton and I have fashioned works well there. I think the plan is for us to appear there every other Friday.
Then, starting this next Saturday, I’ll be at the new Hotel Indigo, also in the downtown of my ciity. For the first outing there, I’ll be with keyboardist Daryl Spurlock. He’s an old bud (as in back to the tenth grade, during the Nixon era). When he moved back to Indiana from Seattle four years ago, we hooked back up. He’s playing keys on several of the sound clips over at my main site. We’ve done jazz gigs, but the Indigo manager wants us to do blues and soul, a la “It Could Be That Way,” ironically, the only tune on my sound clips page on which somebody else is playing keys. Very doable. Daryl has been playing lots of blues up in Indy lately, with Governor Davis and the like.
With gas prices in the statospheric range, it sure is nice to have some steady work within blocks of home. Major thanks to the Great I AM.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Let’s hear it for solipsism!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I’d rather gather a bunch of folks around and give them a shared listening experience.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Well, it’s as close as you will ever get to socialism, no? If only God would grant us all gigs close to home. Short of that divine intervention, we better try harder to figure this all out ourselves.
May 4th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I dunno. I think we absolutely better seek His guidance in all this.