When you’re a kid you dream big. And if you’re a musical kid then one of your biggest dreams is winning a Grammy. As you probably know from reading my blog my teenage, music-loving, jazz-playing sons are in two different audition-only professional jazz bands. One of those bands, The Crescent Super Band, is recording its […]
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Mother-Son Bonding One Neurotic Moment at a Time
If you’re friends with me on Facebook (And if you’re not, what’s wrong with you? “Friend” me right now!) you know that my oldest son, Derrick, played this week at Carnegie Hall with jazz sax legend David Sanborn. At age 17 Derrick’s the lead alto sax player in the pro big band, Caleb Chapman’s Crescent […]
Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Super Band, A Crescent Christmas
Happy Black Friday! Did you get out at the crack of dawn today to buy Old Navy T-shirts in colors you’d never wear just because they were two for $10? I chose to stay home an surf the Web for the exact same deals. Now with online shopping making EVERYTHING more competitive, watching the bargain […]
Crescent Super Band Wows at Telluride Jazz Festival
(This is an update to this post, since I just got done seeing the Crescent Super Band perform again live at the Telluride Jazz Festival.) In one word, AWESOME! I know it’s an overused word, but it’s the only word I can think of to describe The Crescent Super Band’s performance this weekend on the […]