Sunday, April 18, 2010. A beautifully chilly spring day. I am no jazz drummer, but I am working on it. And playing at it. And loving it. I played for Seussical: the Musical with a couple of buddies who decided it would be fun to play some standards together…so we booked a show at Sunset Hills. We show up on jazz time, set up (me on a chair because someone had lifted my throne a couple of nights prior), and burned through some standards (“All Blues,” “Take Five,” “Blue Bossa,” “Oye Como Va,” [sure that's a standard!], “Straight, No Chaser…”). Man, it was fun. The winemaker is friends with my buddies, so he sat in on guitar…it was a treat. And he makes an enormously fine Viognier, with a bottle of which he sent us home. (That is the kind of criticism up with which I will not put…). Wine and jazz…a good Sunday afternoon. Hopefully we’ll do it again soon…
