One night we were playing at the Village Vanguard, and the owner, Max Gordon, wanted me to play behind a singer. So I told him I didn’t play behind no girl singer. But I told him to ask Herbie [Hancock], and if Herbie wanted to do it then it was okay with me. So Herbie, Tony and Ron played behind her and the people loved her. I didn’t play and neither did Wayne. I asked Max who she was, you know, what was her name. So Max said, ‘Her name is Barbra Streisand and she’s going to be a real big star.’ So every time I see her today somewhere I say, ‘Goddamn,’ and just shake my head.

Though it’s not quite to my tastes, I think this is an incredible way to educate riders. I have to admit, I’ve never found the need to ride the bus while I was out with my bike; I wouldn’t have had much of a clue how to use the Citrus Connection‘s bike racks until I saw this video.

Yet another example of clever new media marketing.

via Urban Velo.

After some back-and-forth over what hour slot we were to take, we had finally settled on the 7:00-8:00 pm timeslot, accommodating one of the participating artists, a harpist of some kind. Not long after I got home, I received a frantic email – the harpist wasn’t going to make it; could we play two hours?!

Rich was gracious to oblige and we were set. Rich called me half an hour before the gig; he was stuck on I4 with a broken-down car! Certainly not his fault, this was still quite a pickle. I called every player I knew in town – they either didn’t answer or couldn’t make it.

Finally, 5 minutes before downbeat, I get ahold of Paul Butcher, my friend and former teacher. Though he lives 1/2 hour away, he graciously agreed to come out (remember, this is for charity). I played almost 1/2 an hour solo – not something I’m quite prepared for yet (that’s an understatement!) and was saved by Paul’s quick arrival.

People loved it and I really enjoyed playing with Paul, particularly because he brought his flugel. If you can, please come out and see Paul and I again (along with Nick Bagwell on keys) at Mayfaire tomorrow morning at 11:00.

In the street shot, there’s a music stand at the far right, behind the nav bar.  Kudos to the first reader to tell me what two books are on my music stand.

via adrian.

Since it’s the only name to be bifurcated, it took me a second to realize that this guy actually designed a shirt that says “Coltrain.” I guess it’s not an uncommon error, but I can’t imagine a true jazz fan actually wearing a shirt like this. I didn’t see an immediate way to get in touch with the guy, I figured I’d post his CafePress store here in hopes that he might see and fix this error. Preshure’s Tees is the name of the site. Hopefully he’ll Google the name of his store and correct the very funny typo.

OK, I have no use for a chinrest and my tailiece would cause the tree to fall over, but this picture brought a nice close to this very busy, sometimes quite unmusical week.

Seems Jason Heath is having a different kind of problem

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One of my students told me he saw me on the USF Music webpage so I had to check it out for myself:

Isn’t that funny! I’m also in the flash video on the site. Go here to see more of my ugly mug.