Tuesday, December 16, 2003
I returned from The Park Tower Blues Festival
Sunday night,
which was fab by the way-
I met Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown,
who at 79 is still goin' strong.
Also met his Hammond B-3 organ and piano player,
Joe Krown.
A great show.
But when I got home,
there to greet me on the kitchen table
was a little postcard,
with a horns blowin'- people dancing-
and general makings of the merriment-
postage stamp.
A perfect match to one I got about a month ago
which said I was an official "applicant".
It was from The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2004.
In the words of Richard M. Nixon: [also born the same day as me]
They won't have me to kick around.
Their explanation: 90% of their acts are from Louisiana-
The remaining 10% is given to people with larger names
than mine.
Maybe I should change my name to Free Beer.
C'est la VIE,eh?
Now, I concentrate on the J-O-B
at hand.
My Christmas Eve gig at B-FLAT AKASAKA...
It's going to be a great line up:
Pamela MacCarthy- vocals
Mike Price- trumpet, fluegelhorn
Tom Pierson- piano
Tomoya Hara- guitar
Michio Takanashi- bass
Yoshitaka Uematsu- drums
Till next time... 'Mela
5:50 PM
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Photo: Michio Yves Ueda
