Good morning! 8:43 on this sunny-but-cold Saturday. 16 degrees outside, a temperature best viewed from inside. Not yet back to my usual 7 hours and change, but still better rested. You can function on five-or-so hours of sleep, but everything is just a little more irritating or worrisome. So this morning the world is a slightly more hospitable place.
Music news. I will soon have two new recordings to share with you. One is a live CD of the quartet I had from 2000-2005, and the other is something I started back in 2007 but never followed through as far as having it available digitally. That's where it's at anymore, streams and the occasional download.. And I've been jumping through the various hoops to get it all processed just so.
Spoke yesterday to a very nice young lady at Easy Song Licensing, somewhere in Minnesota, who fixed my baby-boomer computer mistakes(gotta blame it on something!) and got me all squared away. I've now done two projects with them, the second of which I got right. So I'm getting better as I go. Live and learn...
December 27th is still the next day this year I play someplace outside the house. Eventually we'll be back in business with some central spot like Robbie's(or maybe even Robbie's itself), I do have a gig coming from the Uptown Friday Night series, whenever that gets rescheduled, and am looking forward to that. Got new tunes and new albums to share. But before I come back in any real way, I've gotta take care of a few things.
First and foremost is some kind of social life. I let that go during my working years, particularly the last half. My job was a stressful one, and it got to be that I'd need every weekend just to decompress. Kept all my friends, just lost getting together with them. So this is what's needed. As problems go, this is a pretty fixable one. But it's the first one I'm addressing.
Second is getting together and making music with other people, regardless of whether there's an audience. There's a bass player, lives in Poland(!)but has family here, who's come over and played tunes. On my YouTube page, under playlists(go to playlists and then created playlists)called Sam and Raj. Hope to do some more playing with Raj, among others.
So these things will take care of themselves. In the meantime, I always have something going here in the Music Lab to share with you. Sometimes nice and tuneful, sometimes weird as hell.
An introspective post today. Thanks as ever for stopping in and wading through it. Happy Saturday to you! For now, I'm outa here. More later. PS Today's pic is another band picture from 2004 or so. I think Ed Clark was the photographer. And it was at Lime St. PPS Today's tune was done in 1989 or 1990. Wayne Coniglio is the trombonist. Enjoy!