I don't know if any famous--or infamous--jazz musicians were born on this day, but back on the 7th we had Joe Zawinul, Hank Mobley and Doc Severinsen, For some damn reason, I can sometimes remember dates, and sort of correlate them with other bits of similarly useless information. For instance, April 29 is the birthdate of Duke Ellington and Toots Theilemans. I have a feeling that someday that's all I'll be able to remember…
Back here in Samland, I'm making do. My digital camera, which I use for my YouTube videos, is on the fritz. It starts to record, and then shuts off by itself after a couple minutes. So I'm able to get clips of everything as opposed to the full track. It's a Canon Powershot, which I've replaced once already. Just gotta get up off some money and get myself a new one.
My sunburst Epiphone ES-335 is also she's-a- no-work. The metal washer on the jack came loose. Very fixable, but I have to go all the way out to Parkway Pointe to get it repaired. Meanwhile, I've been making do with my sunburst Epiphone Coupe. It's smaller, but packs a good punch with its P-90 pickups.
In other music news, it looks like we're back in season for jam sessions. They've all been evening hours, which doesn't work so well for me. But our host for these sessions has retired from his daygig, so he'll now be able to accommodate day hours. So we now have a Tuesday matinee and a Thursday evening. Hopefully this will all work out..
There's a new person taking care of the Arts Council these days. The one who had it for all these years has done a great job--the only difference I would have is to allow people to play both the Artist-on-the-Square gigs and Boone's. You couldn't do both in a year, so I always opted for Boone's. But I'd love to get back in doing the Artist-on-the-Square things. An exhausting hour of solo guitar, but there were always folks around to listen. And quite often it was someone I hadn't seen in years.
I'm still getting in my daily calisthenics as far as the guitar. Still recording things, but it's getting to be a pain due to the camera always shutting down. Time, like I said, to get off my duff and get something that's going to work.
I sometimes check the traffic in here, and people do check in. I don't know if they read the blog, but most likely. So here's what I've been up to. Thanks as ever for stopping in and reading. Much love. More later.
