On Saturday, May 29, at 3 p.m., I will have my first public performance since March 12, 2020, when NYC shut down because of the pandemic. It will have been 442 days since I played a gig in public. I've been fortunate in that I was able to play four times during the pandemic: once with my Glitter Quartet, once with my collective Lioness™, and twice with baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian because we had been quarantining like mad and getting tested for Covid and wore masks and played …
Three Words for 2021 and Five Good Things from 2020
Yes, January is half over, so I'm a little behind, but here it is, my three words for 2021. Since at least 2016 (that's as far back as my records go), instead of making New Years' Resolutions (which, let's face it, never really stick unless you're some kind of superhuman). So here we go: Precision Completion Attention Precision: my dear guitar teacher Ted Dunbar (1937-1998) used to say, "do everything with quality, and everything will be just right." Sometimes I've found that I will …
Online Concert!
Finally - a gig! Well, sort of... On Sunday, October 18, 2020 my Glitter Quartet will be performing on YouTube as part of the Lioness: Women in Jazz Concert Series that is being hosted by Flushing Town Hall and Convergence Arts. We recorded our tunes at Euphoria Studios in NYC on September 27. Euphoria is one of the few rehearsal spaces in NYC that has the Covid protocols together, so we safely played a set of music together (and WOW WOW WOW it was heaven to play music with my band …