An Introduction - Part II

The reason for the blog is to rehash past performances, announce upcoming performances, and to comment on jazz happenings in general. So to get started, let me rehash a couple of recent gigs.

A couple of weeks ago we had the privilege of playing at the San Jose Jazz Festival's 48-hour Jazz Stage. According to the Jazz festival website, the 48-hour Jazz Stage is suppose to reflect San Jose Jazz's commitment to local talent. The funny thing was the group that followed us was the Yoshiaki Miyanoue Tokyo Quartet. (They were great, BTW.) I guess it all depends on your definition of local.

Playing at the festival was fun. We got to play indoors at the Theatre on San Pedro Square -- a wonderful little venue with comfortable chairs and far from the madding crowd.

Last weekend we got to play at another wonderful little venue, the Unwind Wine Bar in south San Jose. The picture above is from that gig. Unwined has a very relaxed atmosphere. Musically, is was a good night for us. Coming right on the heels of our jazz festival performance, I think we were all feeling fairly "on" that night.

An Introduction - Part I

So the reason for the fish, if you haven't put it together, is the idea of "scales." Fish have scales and jazz musicians use scales when they improvise. Scales = scales. A bit of a stretch perhaps, but I thought the picture of the fish (a koi) was cool. And it fits with the motif of the website, such as it is.