What a month February was.  So much so that it’s taken me until the 7th of March to write about it.  First the present tense… I’m sitting in a cab after a show with Deb Berman at the Metropolitan Room, going to P&G to see what’s left of Jimmy Norman’s…

Sunday, February 6 Sitting here at Singer’s Forum on 24th st waiting for Elizabeth and Michael to come in. We were supposed to have a rehearsal and a show last week, both of which were canceled due to a virus.  That sort of thing really matters to a vocalist.  So…

Sunday afternoon, somewhere in New Jersey… The Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center just started a concert series called Music At The Mansion.  When they asked me to be one of the artists I jumped at the chance. Conceptually it seemed right in line with my House Concert Series.  The setting is…

The Utopia Diner on Broadway at 72nd is a great place to come in out of the cold.  It’s Friday evening, and the streets are crowded with people.  They are also very difficult to navigate with the huge piles of snow everywhere.  Each corner has a huge puddle to either…

1/27/2011 Since I got this iPad for Christmas I’ll put it to good use and compose blog entries while traveling. It seems to be the only time I have left for that… Here I am on the C train from World Trade Center bound for somewhere in Brooklyn for a…

What Christmas means to me: rest.  Yesterday I cooked a chicken with stuffing and Extra Lumpy Gravy and Brussels sprouts.  Pure therapy.  Now we couldn’t go anywhere if we wanted to as it is a blizzard outside.  I’ll take it.  After so many shows, rehearsals, recordings, and traveling it is…

So that didn’t work out very well, did it…?  With all the best intentions I thought a weekly recount of events would be a great idea.  Unfortunately I got too busy even for that.  In fact, I’m stealing time from something else right now to do this.  I’m supposed to…

Here is this week’s recount of the shows, rehearsals, travels, etc. that keep me occupied.  This was a good one.  Last week ended by appearing with Jack Donahue at the Blue Note New York and fleeing Greenwich Village before the Halloween Parade.  This week started with… Monday 11/1 4:00 Soundcheck…

Some weeks there is just so much activity that I don’t have time to write about each thing in any depth.  So I wait until I have time…’maybe after next week’ – which now looks the same as this past one, and so on until three weeks go by and…

There are two common misconceptions about Japanese food: first that it is comprised mostly of raw fish and second that it needs to be expensive.  Another erroneous belief is that all sushi restaurants are actually Japanese.  Unless you are with a Japanese person, it can be hard to tell the…