I'm Dreaming of some new tunes

Here is the gig info for Dec 14,15,16,and 17th. The weekend was snowed out. I didn't have much on the weekend anyway.

Monday 12/14 was the big gig for the hospital trio. Wally, Wiley and Matt. I played my upright electric bass and used a chorus effect some for the big smooth jazz sound.

The urb is like Jaco on steroids. The chicken wings were really good.

Tuesday 12/15 I played a Christmas party at Nobels Resturant in W.S. They closed the place down for these people. Very loud and great food. I had Salmon and Cream of Tomato Soup. It was a trio, piano,bass and drums. Karen, my wife on piano and John Wilson on drums.

Wednesday 12/16 was an old folks home in Greensboro in the morning. They had a good time with the quartet of piano,bass, drums and sax. We played White Christmas twice and the same guy was still asking for it. That night I played at Knollwood Baptist Church with 2 guitars and drums. It was their Jazz Christmas dinner. Greg Hyslop sounded great on guitar as did Ken Wilson. Bill Poole did a fine job on drums.

Thursday finished things up for this very busy Holiday Season. I played a hospital up in Reidsville with the Hospital trio. That evening I played for the Urban League's Holiday

party with John on drums and Wiley Porter on guitar. The gigs were all Christmas all the time.

Merry F'in Christmas.

xmas gigs xmas gigs xmas all the way

This was a busy week. Monday the 7th was a rehearsal for Swingle Bells. Tuesday the 8th was the show. This was a Christmas concert with the Giannini Brass Quintet, Vocalist Martha Bassett and The Christmas All Star Jazz Trio. That's me, John Wilson Drum and Fred Pivetta piano. The show was sold out and a big success. We had some especially great arrangements by Roger Pemberton.

Wednesday I played at a hospital in Greensboro with the "Christmas Tree-o". Wally West and Wiley Porter, sax and guitar. we play lots of Holiday music.

Thursday was another Hospital gig with the same guys. After that I played an old folks home. They had a good time. More Christmas.

Friday was a luncheon gig for a rotary club. Bass, drums and guitar. more Christmas

Saturday I did a wedding reception with Wally, Fred and John. Four For One. I like this group. We played at the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro. What a cool hotel.

We got treated very well. More Christmas Music.

Sunday was a Christmas Cantata in Mt Airy. It was a double on Upright and Electric.

The orchestra was 4 violins, 2 Violas, 1 Cello, Me 2 Trumpets, Oboe, Flute and Keys.

There was a Chorus too.

Later that day was a gig a car dealer with Fred and Wally. Christmas.

It was a good week.

XMas and the Gig

Christmas time and the gigin's plenty. I am playing and going to play a lot of Christmas music this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
This past week got things going a little. I finished up the semester at Wake Forest on Tuesday.

Thursday 12/3 I played two things in Greensboro. The first was the first of 5 daytime dates in Hospitals. It's me Wiley Porter on Guitar and Wally West on Sax. We play all Christmas for a couple hours for employee parties. After that it's down to West Market Street Methodist church for a Jazz Nativity called Bending Towards the Light. I have been playing this for 12 years or so. It's fun. The band was good this year. It's 8 pieces. T-bone, Trumpet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Piano, Drums, Percussion, Guitar and Bass. There is a choir, singers, dancers. It's quite a show. This was the rehearsal.

Friday I did a little trio with John Mochnick for a church Christmas dinner. Low key.

Saturday was another double header. I played the performance of "Bending Towards The Light". It went very well and was fun as usual. After that it was back to Winston-Salem for a night of playing for a Ballroom dancing societys annual party. Waltz, Tango, Cha Cha, Swing, Rhumba and everything. That was with Fred Pivetta and Wiley Sykes. It's like the Catskills sort of except everybody can dance pretty good. Sunday I played at an old folks home. This was in a more medical type setting. Everybody was kind of out of it but they liked it more then people think. Music gives people something to kind of hold on to. I have seen folks that can't remember their name remember all the words and melody to old standards. It's like an old friend that never leaves.