Sam hi. For a few weeks we had rooms together at a house in Coyoacan Mex df. I had just arrived in the country and the other guy we lived with wasn't impressed with sax playing. We went to the Arcano which is a jazz club where I courageously sat in with a great Cuban sax player called Hermadi, we played straight no chaser I think. You were very encouraging to me and I've never forgotten it. Thanks. Adam.
Adam - That was a lot of years ago! That house drove me nuts, because the next-door neighbor had that insane rooster that crowded numerous times beginning about midnight ending about 7 AM. :)
Yeah I remember that rooster now you mention it hehe. Mexico man, I had a place in the San Rafael district of San Miguel for a while and had to listen to the sound of pigs squealing before slaughter all day. I also remember walking across that plaza in Coyoacan late at night followed by that pack of dogs who lived there, all of them growling and snarling, I just kept walking, scared shitless.
My brother played tuba in our high school band. He was good, and I was proud! He played a solo for "Woodchopper's Ball" in Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh on May 8, 1976. I remember the reverberations the bounced off the circular stadium. We wiggle call each other on that day for decades after. Powerful!!
i was happy, or maybe amazed, to find the connection with this book and the two I’d written before about drug addiction, or maybe this one is the polar opposite of the previous two — finding fulfillment from something you work hard at….
Sam hi. For a few weeks we had rooms together at a house in Coyoacan Mex df. I had just arrived in the country and the other guy we lived with wasn't impressed with sax playing. We went to the Arcano which is a jazz club where I courageously sat in with a great Cuban sax player called Hermadi, we played straight no chaser I think. You were very encouraging to me and I've never forgotten it. Thanks. Adam.
Adam - That was a lot of years ago! That house drove me nuts, because the next-door neighbor had that insane rooster that crowded numerous times beginning about midnight ending about 7 AM. :)
Yeah I remember that rooster now you mention it hehe. Mexico man, I had a place in the San Rafael district of San Miguel for a while and had to listen to the sound of pigs squealing before slaughter all day. I also remember walking across that plaza in Coyoacan late at night followed by that pack of dogs who lived there, all of them growling and snarling, I just kept walking, scared shitless.
My brother played tuba in our high school band. He was good, and I was proud! He played a solo for "Woodchopper's Ball" in Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh on May 8, 1976. I remember the reverberations the bounced off the circular stadium. We wiggle call each other on that day for decades after. Powerful!!
i was happy, or maybe amazed, to find the connection with this book and the two I’d written before about drug addiction, or maybe this one is the polar opposite of the previous two — finding fulfillment from something you work hard at….
seemed like an important message in these times….
What a gift to take shelter in music, the purest form of expression imo.