Where’s Warren Lately and Later? Fall 2009
Hello, Music Diggers,
Life is still good, despite all the ugly we may see, all the challenges which turn our stomachs, or even the cataclysms we may anticipate with fear, life is good.
I’ve been smoking that one a lot; it has a good taste.
What’ve I been up to (other than facing my own foibles)? I like to answer that with a “we”.
Just got off a spring-summer through with a busy Netherlands May trekking to many Flemish festivals and pubs with Saskia Laroo and a charming, truimphant 12-days of Paris June with the original ASE duo David Chevan and I…
…Other cool happenings in Hartford too. That’s not all me either. The Hartford Jazz Society has been crucial in that as well as several other key diggers. Nonetheless, I was at the continuing Monday Night in Bushnell Park July 6th appearing with the George Blackman Quintet and the Afro-Semitic Experience respectively. Also in the park in July, I was at the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz with a nova-bright singer Toscha Comeau on the 18th and one of my favorites the Gage/Reed Quintet on the 19th, amongst a garden-rich variety of other acts in the Fri-Sat-Sun gazzam (a gazzam at which thousands came to joy-jam). I ran my own jive one Wednesday with my peeps the Porter Bros and my baby Saskia at the North End Farmer’s Market on Coventry Street, a Hartford Dept of Cultural Affairs joint. I can’t even enumerate all the other cool stuff going on around town without spacing-up these pages. I think Jazz/Creative Improvisational music has more than a chance with all that.
Some new things shining bright at my core too. The latest Afro-Semitic Experience studio project is on it’s way, hopefully in time for it’s live premieres in hometown Hartford, Connecticut and Kalamazoo, Michigan mid-November..too many more things to mention.
Well then, it’s place and time for…