I’m almost done with the latest overhaul of my website. I get totally obsessed with it and I barely sleep while I’m doing it. There will be some slick new things like subscription functions which allows a subscriber to sign up, confirm, change information or unsubscribe at their discretion. There’s and actual contact form which users can fill out to email me rather than have my personal email listed in public to get bombarded with spam. There’s a new music player which will be uniform in all browsers. I think I’ll have some tracks from the New Tricks band that we recorded in May. Good stuff.
In the meantime I played a nice session yesterday with Ted Chubb who’s been on the road with the Jersey Boys show for almost a year. He’s in town to get married! Awesome. Also playing were Noel Sagerman and Kellen Harrison, two of my favorite musicians. It’s always great to just get together and blow some tunes to see what happens out of the public ear. I know some people don’t want to play jam sessions because they think guys (like me) are going to just practice there stuff. I don’t see it that way. It’s a time to work out stuff and stretch and see how far certain elements of harmony can be pushed.
On the other end of the spectrum, I played a clubdate last night. (”Club-dates”, for the uninitiated, are not gigs in clubs, but New York area short hand for weddings – derived from “country-club dates”). I had sworn them off for years, but slowly came to realize that clubdates with good musicians are down-right bearable, pay a lot of money (compared to jazz gigs) and can be good for musicians who play them with the right attitude. Anyway, one day I’ll post a more thorough discuss of commercial gigs. Got to practice a little today…
