Well I did promise to provide some news/an update regarding the Inverloch Jazz Festival and I have not done that as yet….so here it is!!
I was booked to do three performances but only got to do 2, as the last afternoon/evening was washed out. There were storms in the area and two of the venues got closed down and one of them was a venue I was scheduled to play in. I was meant to play on each night of the festival and after the Saturday night performance I drove for a couple of hours to get to my family’s holiday home to spend some time with them. I was on my way back to Inverloch on Sunday for the performance that night when I got a call (Thank goodness!!) from Jon telling me that it had been cancelled. I was pretty close to being back at Inverloch again but turned around and made my way back to Melbourne.
I enjoyed the festival and got to catch up with some people I hadn’t seen in a long time. There was some great playing around the venues through the weekend, from what I saw and heard. I really enjoyed the Air Force Jazz Ensemble, they play some great tunes with really solid arrangements and good soloing. I had fun with the performances I did but didn’t feel I played at my best. The great thing about a music performance is that once you played it, it’s gone…..unless it’s been recorded of course!! I don’t really care to hear any recordings of my playing from the weekend this time around. I was told about some recordings that people really enjoyed that I had done earlier though so am looking forward to hearing those at some point soon.
Have a couple of gigs coming up this weekend which will be interesting. Got a couple of calls yesterday regarding upcoming gigs as well so even though I am not playing as much as I would like to be, things are still happening. Hopefully the calls will keep coming….
