Late July. Friday afternoon jamming in Central Park. Great for developing your repertoire, skills, and improvisation. Today we had a quartet if drums, bass, mini piano and saxophone. The pianist had clever rigged up a wooden cabinet with a keyboard…
One of hippest jazz clubs in New York City would have to be “Smalls”. Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, this famous club has a jam session Twice a day, afternoon and late nights. There’s usually three bands per…
Mid July. Headed down to the Jazz Standard to hear the Jeff Tain Watts Reunion band. Wow. Arrangements done by his Australian wife. Whole band was full of characters. Special note to the amazing trombone section. Some amazing soloing and…
Mid July. Headed down to ‘Smalls’ jazz club to catch a fine set of music by non other than Aussie ex-pat guitarist JC Stylles (Jason Campbell). A trio setting that included Lawrence leathers on drums and Kyle Koehler “The PitBull…
July 18. Had the fortunate pleasure of catching the Legendary Saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi play live at a gig in Brooklyn. He was the hired gun in a quartet of Danish musicians that were touring the USA as part of a…
Mid July. Met a wonderful, friendly, chilled out bass player here in New York, Seth Meyers. Mark Lockett, Seth and I hit it off. After mark got his newly a whites fully portable drum set, we were all set to…
