Ok, so I move kinda slow. It's been months since I posted that I was wanting to play with a groupafolk - and now I am playing with just one other dude and I am feeling pretty smug. Craig Lagerman and I have known each other for a coon's-age as-they-say - and we have kept in touch over the years, but only recently have I felt quite up to playing with this guy now that we are both adults. Craig has played with lots of units over the years, but in the recent era with a country swing group called the Rhythm Busters and with Julie Major in couple of incarnations doing rock-a-billy and swing and standards and stuff. Craig's a journeyman with chops and ears and an abiding sense of rhythm that makes just reading the telephone book dance. My hunt is on for a soloist. Fiddle? A horn? Sackbut? Saw?
Just say no to bagpipes. Pianos are too big. Pan-pipes are too Yanni. Maybe just a guitar. I know some funk players - that could be fun - I will need to make room in the forest of notes I am already playing for somebody special... Hope I find him/her... Could also use another voice - perhaps a dudette who plays an instrument too...
I am excited for our debut at Coda this Saturday the 21st but sad to hear Coda is closing just as I am getting to play a set there. If you want to see Craig play before Saturday, you can catch him with the Julie Major Trio at 7:00 this Thursday at Coda as well. If you are a soloist who ain't afraid of some whacky/jazzy changes, get in touch... Keep an ear out for a demo Craig and I recorded with Kelly Werts in prep for doing some work in this hyar town... hope you like it. See you out on Saturday and about town otherwise.
Aloha.
