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I forgot how wonderful jazz was for a while.  I got into this classical music funk with pat, and then got caught up in choral music for a while, but this morning changed all that.  Christian Mcbride’s Live @ Tonic album came on iTunes, and I’m hooked again.  He tears that record up with Ron Blake and Keezer.  Check out Geoff Keezer’s new record Aurea. It’s pretty tight, blending jazz and south american grooves – I’m digging it so far.

Maybe I’ll be really cool and start getting back into metal and emo and screamo and hardcore and post-rock and all that high school shit.  I like being back into hip hop a lot more, it’s nice to walk around with a groove in yo’self.  That’s why all this Mcbride and Keezer shit is so great, because no matter what time of day it is you can always just groove around and boogie everywhere you’re going.  Oh shit, that and some John Scofield – esp.  A Go Go, with MM&W.  Get that, fast.  ArtistShare is such a great record label – them and Ropeadope.  ‘Cept ropeadope doesn’t let you download PDFs of leadsheets and shit – still hip either way.

I played some duets with Ryan and it was pretty great – it’s nice to play with someone other than Matt during my lessons.  ETW will be good this year.. I’ll save all my tax returns and blow it all on trombone shit.  Looking forward to seeing Charlie Vernon play, too bad it’s with Ewazen.  I might be sending my trombone out to Shires to finally get the horn de-gillespified.  It’s really starting to have an effect on how I’m playing, and it makes me feel like I am slowly getting worse and worse at the trombone.  I need to get that all fixed up, maybe get a new mouthpiece or something.. then I’ll be super excited for the recital with Pat.  It’s tentatively April 8, but that’s a terrible night.. so we might try to stick it in the Choir Room some evening later on – we’ll see.

maybe i’ll keep writing in this thing seriously for a while.  for those of you who don’t know, the past like.. 4 months of having one of these was a joke.  can’t leave all the jokes behind though–

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