NEWS
what's the racket?
BIG OPEN AIRS WITH HELGE
There are some big open-airs coming up with Helge. He does these every summer and the warm atmosphere is most pleasurable. After this long, cold winter I think we are all ready for some warm sunny days. Mecky and I lay around in the garden at every opportunity and we don’t worry about skin cancer. I reckon we are old enough not to worry about anything very much. I take every day at a time and I’m happy when the creaking body functions reasonably well.
Which it does thanks to various pills, All-Bran and gallons of water.
BIG GIGS
For those of you coming down to Kitzbühel in July, I will be arriving on Thursday the 13th and am looking forward to sessions on Thursday and Friday as well as our big gig on the Saturday night.
I’ll be happy to meet any of you devoted visitors to this site and sign your old records etc.
Albie and Chris will also be there and it should be a wild session.
YES, FOLKS, JAZZ SHOULD BE FUN, I DON’T CARE WHAT THE JAZZ POLICE SAY!
I am lucky that I get invited to play with such a variety of very talented players. The next months will see me with several old pals and one or two relatively new ones. In June I will be playing some club gigs with Helge Schneider plus American jazz great, Scott Hamilton. There have been some difficulties in scheduling to suit everyone, but this has resulted in a treat for the jazz fans in Berlin. We are booked in to the Quasimodo for three days. Scott plays the first day, Thursday the 8th but can’t do the Friday. So Alan Barnes will fly in, play that night and stay for Saturday the 10th when Scott comes back. So there’ll be two saxes on that night, and two of the best!!! The next day Scott goes back to the UK and Alan comes to Bonn with Helge and I.
Helge and I will be singing on these jazz dates and it promises to be a lot of fun. Yes, folks, jazz should be fun, I don’t care what the Jazz Police say.