| Greetings Music Friends, I woke up today and was thinking about great jazz vocalists and this lead me to a record that my Dad loved called The Great American Songbook (Live) by Carmen McRae. My Dad played this disc to death and us kids soaked it up even though the main attraction for us at that time were The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Jimi Hendrix. This collection of classic tunes was recorded live at Donte’s in Los Angeles in 1972 and includes Joe Pass on guitar and Jimmy Rowles on piano. Carmen’s a sassy handful and sings up a storm. I went to iTunes and with true digital magic, Jimmy Rowles’ quirky intro on “At Long Last Love” is coming to life in realtime and the morning is off to a swinging start.
Last evening we played a show at Mira Costa College with Matt Falker and his True North singers and it was a hoot. The vocalists are incredible singing really complex arrangements and pulling it off effortlessly. We’re doing it again on Friday afternoon at the JEN Convention in San Diego and I think the general public can attend. JEN stands for Jazz Education Network and click here if you want more info.
I’m tuning up my single neck nylon string guitar and readying the atmosphere for a solo guitar night at the Roxy Restaurant in downtown Encinitas. It’s all going on tomorrow (Thursday) night and it’s one of my favorite weekly moments. Hope to see you there.  Tuning it up and getting ready for the Roxy. The big news for this week, and right in line with incredible jazz singers, vocalist Sinne Eeg is joining us for a night of music at Dizzy’s on Friday night. She lives in Copenhagen and tours extensively all over Europe and it’s a real treat when she ventures to L.A. and from there makes her way south to share her sound with us. We’ve played Dizzy’s two times in the years prior and both have been super well attended and truly magical nights of music. She has a new recording out called Face the Music and it won the Danish Music Award for vocal jazz album of year 2014. For our Dizzy’s hit it’ll be me on guitar, Gunnar Biggs on bass, and Duncan Moore on drums backing up Sinne. Big fun ahead for this one! See you there…  Sinne Eeg As promised, the mixing and video editing are complete and if you want to see how the Christmas Eve 2014 Del Mar concert went down, click below and check ‘er out. It was once again a warm day and the sun was cooking the instruments, the mixing board was a frying pan, Peter and Duncan had weird looking hats going on, the band navigated some tricky charts with true professional valor, and the happy people of San Diego turned out in droves. What a great life it is delivering sound for a living!
There it is good people and I’ll see you out in the world, Peter |
