2012 tour repertoire

Rehearsal, severely jetlagged, at Jazz Station, Brussels More tour documentation here— this may not be real interesting to everyone. These are the tunes I had in my book on the 2012 outing, along with some […]

Pete LaRoca 1938-2012

Another very great drummer has died, Pete LaRoca Sims. I heard that he had entered a hospice a few days ago; his condition must have deteriorated very quickly. He was of roughly the same generation […]

An epic 48 hours of travel.

Among the last civilized moments of the trip, despite the automatic weapons. Got up early on our last morning in Paris to go see the Eiffel Tower at dawn and then hustle with our luggage […]

Tour wrapping up

Obviously it’s been very hard for me to get to a computer and do any posting while I’ve been on tour. Our last gig is tonight, in Aachen, Germany, then I’m off to hang around […]

Riding into Paris

Operating on very little sleep here after driving back to Brussels after our Paris gigs, and organizing photos from that leg of the trip, many of which were taken with that jive Android “retro” camera […]