Today, Tin and I walked down to Clever with his pocket trumpet and a strong desire to see his godfather, Evan Christopher. This morning in his latest Tinism, he had said “Louis Armstrong doesn’t know me,” but I responded, au contraire mon petite, I believe he does indeed know you, Tin Dangermond. He had been watching his Louis and the All Stars DVD and I could tell he was really thinking about Louis this morning…
Evan Christopher is playing at Cafe Istanbul on Saturday, April 14th – Suleyman stopped by to chat on the porch this afternoon and said everyone is talking about this show. As well they should be. I missed Evan and Chuck Perkins at the Mint the other day and I’m still kicking myself. Sunday, April 15th – Evan’s doing his Jazz Brunch at Clever again – if you haven’t been, you’ve never been to a JAZZ…
Tin and I went to Clever today to see Evan Christopher performing with Roland Guerin, Matt Lemmler and O.C. Davis play some wonderful jazz. Tin stared adoringly at Evan the whole time and no wonder – those cats could play!
The weekend came and went with a dinner here for guests, a birthday party for Tin’s classmate, a dash to Spotted Cat, a costume affair at the Pussyfooter’s Blush Ball, a Jazz Brunch with Evan Christopher, James Singleton, and Steve Masakowski, and the drummer whose name I can’t remember, then there was the PROJECT (putting up the Nolli Plan), and then dinner at Three Muses and Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue. Whew! And…
Last night we celebrated the festival of lights by lighting the eight candles on the menorah (plus the 9th) and by having friends and food and fun and serendipitously music. The LaLa was meant for live music and this year, we felt we couldn’t afford to hire musicians and as the universe has been doing of late, it provided three talented musicians who came packing instruments and some Hanukkah songs in their repertoire – who…
The night we asked Evan and Nina over to ask them to be Tin’s godparents, Evan brought Tin a clarinet he had purchased for the mouthpiece. He had intended to make a lamp out of the body of the instrument but then when he saw it there in his house he knew that Tin would just love to have this real instrument, so he gave it to him. Evan didn’t know that night we were…
To celebrate the release of a new Clarinet Road CD, Clever Wines will host my next jazz brunch this Sunday. They’re handling the food this time, and if it’s half as good as the band, it will be great. I have Mike Pellera, Peter Harris, and Ocie Davis. Background jazz? No way! Hope to see you Sunday. Doors open at 11am, music starts at 11:30. Because seating is very limited, they are taking reservations. Please call…
Evan Christopher put together a pop up jazz brunch at Clever today and maybe because he’s Tin’s godfather, he also made it a family friendly one. Playing with Evan was James Singleton on bass, Herman Lebeaux on drums, and Matt Lemmler on keyboards and when I say the joint was jumpin’ I mean it was on fyyyy ahhh. No where in the world was there a jazz brunch like this one for the kind of…
Imagine someone is telling you this grand, epic story, and you keep impatiently asking but what happened next or how did it end? Yesterday, we started with toddler apocalypse, out of a good morning came chaos trying to get ready to go to another toddler’s birthday party, I DON’T WANT TO through streams of tears and anguished cries, one hour of this and both of us saw our nerves fray into thin whispery strands barely…
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…