We’re arrived in Monterey yesterday, in time for the pre-festival kick-off bbq. The student band performed and they sound great, reaffirming one’s belief in the future of jazz. These kids study hard, display excellent music reading skills, put forth a good ensemble sound, and they can swing too. What I haven’t heard in a while, though, is a really good young soloist, but perhaps that for which I listening requires seasoning, if not actual age.<\/p>\n
This morning, over breakfast with Marty Ashby and his wife, we heard about the upcoming season at the Manchester Craftsmens Guild.<\/a> A lot of great jazz will be heard in Pittsburgh thanks to MCG, and for those of us who live in other places, they have produced a number of stellar CDs.<\/p>\n I just dropped off two boxes of books (“Men, Women, and Girl Singers<\/a><\/em>“) as the Tower Records booth, and John has agreed to do a book signing there on Sunday evening (5:30pm), following Clairdee’s performance and CD signing. The cloud cover is just now burning off and we have time for a drive along the coast before the festival kicks off this evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re arrived in Monterey yesterday, in time for the pre-festival kick-off bbq. The student band performed and they sound great, reaffirming one’s belief in the future of jazz. These kids study hard, display excellent music reading skills, put forth a good ensemble sound, and they can swing too. What I haven’t heard in a while, … Continue reading “Brief Note”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz-ears","category-this-n-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}