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People around here are intrigued by the name Tin which is a derivative of Constantin. Similarly, I call Tatjana sometimes Tanja because that is a diminutive in Croatian of her name (pronounced Tonya). But my favorite are the nicknames you can glean from the Obits here in New Orleans – just this week Ernest Joseph “Poncho” died, so did Louise F. “Ace”, Tilman “Toe-Joe” was mourned by his brother Wilfred “Pinkie” and Reginald “Big Reg”…
A friend on Facebook posted the Eagles’ There’s a New Kid in Town saying it reminded her of Tin after seeing him all over the internet with his trumpet. I told Tin last night that he has the moves, he has the looks, but now he has to have the music to be the real deal. As I made zucchini muffins in the kitchen, he was wondering around the house and being a little too…
I’ve been collecting Bridge Stories for a show that Marcela Singleton is curating at the Fair Grounds Coffeehouse called Bayou St. John: Portrait of a Neighborhood as part of the awareness campaign for the ReBridge project. I could just work in the world of Oral History – what a wonderful experience and how lucky we are to live here in this city, on the bayou, and have these romantic bridges to anchor our stories. Here…
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” — Flannery O’Connor I’m of the opinion that as you age you start to care less about somethings and more about other things and what I find strange is that instead of running away from certain ideals I held as a youth, I find myself returning to those visions now as I approach 52 years of age. Literature, good friends, gardening, service to the…
Listening to the beats in your own head. I watch Tin when he is in the crowd and the music is playing and he is inside his head, hearing the beats, feeling the beats. I like that because it took me a long time to grow up and listen to the beats inside myself. Last week and into this week has been a series of intersections with either the pugnacious or the rapacious leaving me…
I ditched spin class at the last minute and Tin and I rode the bike to the French Quarter to see the Panorama Jazz Band, which is a klezmer band. I brought Tin’s trumpet and he loved getting down to the Trombone Hora. Gotta love it. A Jewish man was so enamored with Tin he kept taking his photo and wanted to pick Tin up and get in the photo with him – I warned…
Tuesday, 12 April: Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Ave. (8pm-11pm). Special Guest w/ John Rankin (guitar) SATURDAY, 16 APRIL: Ogden Museum, 925 Camp St. (8pm Concert). NOLA Art House Music’s “Dream Out Loud” Concert feat. new music by Matt Lemmler, Ed Anderson, & Evan Christopher SUNDAY, 17 April: Ogden Museum, 925 Camp St. (2pm Matinee). NOLA Art House Music’s “Dream Out Loud” Concert feat. new music by Matt Lemmler, Ed Anderson, & Evan Christopher Monday, 18 April: Chickie…
Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road: 2nd Annual International Jam Session. Monday, April 11 starting at 8pm. Chickie Wah Wah (2828 Canal St.) $10 Clarinetist Evan Christopher leads a band of New Orleans jazz masters including drummer Shannon Powell, guitarist Don Vappie, and bassis Kerry Lewis. Musicians from around the world are invited to to bring instruments to join this celebration of New Orleans jazz. As an added bonus, the great vocalist Topsy Chapman will likely stop by…
So as much as I am want to bitch about San Francisco and California sometimes you know how beautiful it is there and the cornucopia of all that awaits you. It’s just not home and that is what made it difficult to reside there. But when I moved back to New Orleans I continued to see my hair stylist there because I feared getting a New Orleans haircut. So when I found Scott Reynaud at…