The trip to New Orleans shouldn’t have happened. I had no business traveling anywhere. My checking account is on life support. I was sitting on the couch minding my own business; looking at other people’s business on Facebook I saw someone had posted a link for a round trip flight to NOLA [...]
As I sit at my computer in the wee hours, because I am all about the wee hours, I realize that this issue of The Syncopated Times could be with someone who is in the audience at one of my sets at The Hot Jazz Jubilee, Labor Day weekend, in Sacramento! More than likely your [...]
Much has been said amongst band leaders about playing for dancers, and swing dancing itself has been the entry point for quite a few band leaders. Sure sometimes dancers forget to order food and their love for tap water is legendary but playing for dancers is another way to be appreciated and employed. And as [...]
My childlike adoration of fireworks is extreme. If you don’t at least like them you probably should be shipped off to the island where I’ve mentally put the people who don’t like chocolate. Once in childhood my mother punished me for something trivial by not letting me see that year’s fireworks display. I will occasionally [...]
ROAD TRIPPIN' In these parts any drive under 3 hours is more commute than road trip; in fact Los Angeles just “won” worst traffic in the country…again. Never mind that, this year for my birthday I decided (last minute) that I would check off a bucket list item and head out to Joshua Tree National [...]