| Greetings Beautiful People! It’s with frozen and currently thawing out fingers that I write you. This morning the incessant wind was taking a rest and this lured me out to the grey ocean for some wave riding and mind cobweb cleaning. Super fun always and it’s the best way to get the day’s pendulum started.
I combed through the video clips from our Stevie Wonder gig at Dizzy’s a couple weeks back and came up with a highlights reel. Check out Justin’s hypnotic bass line on “Do I Do” and how Geoffrey Keezer ventures into Galaxy X as the tune progresses. Gillian’s got a great sound, Leonard channels Stevie, Duncan hitting hard and steady, and lucky me along for the spin. It was a good night of jazz funk…  Click the vid for a ride on the Sir Duke express! Last weeks trio Handlery gig was a hoot with good musos, good acoustics, and a vibrant and listening audience. Lets do it again when a date opens up!  Handlery trio jazz with Tim McMahon on drums, Peter on guitar, and Harley Magsino on bass. Brewing for this week, I’m back (I missed my time away) to the Roxy on Thursday night for solo guitar music. The downbeat is at 7pm and I’ll explore solo for a set and then have some friends join in for the 2nd set. Hope to see you there!  Someday I’ll just take Rocky to the gig and leave my guitar at home. On Friday night vocalist Kevyn Lettau along with me and my brother will play a show at Ki’s Restaurant in Cardiff. The 3 of us go way back from our early days with our group Dance of the Universe playing the Belly Up, The Albatross, Chuck’s Steak House, Elarios, The Bella Via, etc. A killer ride through the history of San Diego jazz and so happy to continue on exploring new music and new friends to take it all in. Come and be part of the revolution! Look below for the deets…  This is fun! An old school clip from a concert in Del Mar during a hot August night. That’s me, Tripp, Kevyn and Coral in the front line. We’ve been rehearsing all week for the concert on Saturday night joining forces with Beth Ross Buckley’s Camarada group. The theme for the night is Bossa Nova and we’ve got Kevyn singing along with Fred Benedetti on guitar, Gunnar Biggs on bass, Monette Marino on percussion, Beth on flute and me on guitar. I’ve put together some new arrangements on classic tunes by Jobim, Edu Lobo, Chick Corea, Djavan and even a samba that Kevyn and I wrote together. The concert is at an interesting and new (to me) space in Barrio Logan called Bread and Salt. I’ve heard great things about the venue and it should be a wonderful event. We’d love to have you there and if it sounds good, follow the links below for more info. You know it’s a good moment when the gentle guitar chords caress the Portuguese lyric, accented by the congas pulse, lifting into the sky right above the Coronado Bridge. If you let it, it’ll take you away. (They don’t believe in taxes up there).
all good things to ‘ya, Peter |
