Jan 25

Played an awesome gig with the Esstee big band boys and girls last night. It was for a wedding at the Long Room in Collins St and it was very flash. Open bar, nice food, some nice women to look at and a couple of swinging sets of big band jazz!! It’s so great living closer to the city now cos I was able to get dropped off just down the road from the front door and had a car waiting for me at the end of the gig, right outside the door!! How’s that for service??

The band sounded really good last night. A couple of deps in the sax section but I’ve been playing with those guys for a while so it is quite comfortable. It’s my first gig with those guys that will actually pay a decent amount!! Loved playing 1st tenor even though there weren’t a lot of solos. Wish I could play gigs like that every week though.

Tomorrow will bring a whole new challenge though….

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Jan 24

Really looking forward to playing with the Esstee Big Band again tonight. We have a wedding gig at the Long Room in Collins St in Melbourne and it should be awesome. I’ve been playing regular with another big band but it will be nice to play with these guys again….and actually make some money in the process!!!

Am missing the latin playing quite a lot, not just the regularity but the actual playing as well. It’s soooooo much fun!!! Am really hoping that will kick off again soon.

Got my girl home with me again so will sign off wishing you a fantastic rest of the weekend and an amazing week ahead!!

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Jan 05

you press a button just to check something out and it ends up going ahead and ruining (at least for the moment) all the work that had been put into something?? Well  I just did that very thing and am extremely annoyed at myself. I’m pleased that I was curious and wanted to find out more but didn’t think about the consequences of those actions. At least it is something that can be reproduced (over time) but it does put a bit of a dampener on my day.

Enough grumbling, catch you next time…..

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