Over and Temporarilly Out

I'm leaving next Saturday for a hitch on the Grand Princess. The band will continue to work because of the diligence of my brother Jimmy, who has done so much to keep things happening while I go out to sea.

Last night we used the other band, formerly the New Flamingo Swing Orchestra twenty-odd years ago in Los Angeles, now the Original Recipe Big Band. The gig was at the aircraft museum at the Addision Airport just north of Dallas. The band was me, Thad Scott and Mark Kazanoff on tenors, Chris Kapral on bari, Andre Zollinger (who flew in from Vegas) and John Van der Gheynst on trumpets, Matt Walker on trombone, Marilyn Rucker on piano, Bruce Truitt on guitar, Mark Nelms on upright bass, and of course Jimmy on drums. My son Brendan played for Jimmy on a couple tunes he sang and sounded great. Jan's son Tristan recorded the festivities on 2 Neve pre's. I haven't heard it yet but I bet it's great.

And so dear reader, barring any onshore activity that I'm called upon, I will now move over to another blog called A Grand Winter | 2005, which you can find at http://grandwinter.blogspot.com/.

If I get any band business to report in the next 4 months I'll blog on it here.

Ciao!