BoneSoir and yesterday at the beach 2

the 232 to the 550 to the 780 back on the 217 and finally a front row seat at LACMA's Friday Night Jazz. tonite: BoneSoir. excellent. before LACMA, i stopped by Samy's Camera on Fairfax and rented a very, very nice lens. i will be playing with it more tomorrow. for sure the first and third photo were taken with the rented lens. i think the second photo was taken with my old 75-300mm.

not the best quality (old Polaroid digital camera ... yes, i did say Polaroid) but you can get some idea of the wonderful sound that is BoneSoir.

back to yesterday

Tamir's playground: from Harlem to Tel Aviv and points in between

here is a little sample of the incredibly talented and charming pianist, Tamir Hendelman, that i had the wonderful pleasure of seeing tonite at LACMA's Friday Night Jazz concert.  and it only took three buses and about 2 hours to get there.

the song is entitled "Playground" from Tamir's debut cd also called Playground.

Dean Koba on drums, 

Dan Lutz on bass

"Spring Action" (if you can't see it here, just click on this to see it in youtube)(if you can't see it in youtube, just stop by my place and you can it and another of my favorites, Israeli Waltz).

i think they could have been spaced a little more effectively on Wilshire Blvd.

what caught my eye as the bus was stopped at a traffic light somewhere on Sepulveda, the features of staying at this motel.  yes, cable tv is nice but this motel also offers . . . telephones.

diagnosis: acute infectious bronchitis

yes, that is what i was told by my friendly, informative and Mike Ditka-looking nurse practitioner...yes, my nurse was a guy...don't be stereotyping my nurse thinking my nurse was a female that looked like the former football player/coach for the Chicago Bears.  i am now on day 3 of my antibiotics and assorted other medicines for my cough, fever, running nose (smelly feet).  i do feel much better, thanks for asking but... i will not be leaving for Japan tomorrow which means... no Takatsuki Jazz Festival.  no Fried Pride on saturday afternoon in the main concert hall next to the temple next to the big park on the grounds of a former castle. no SpitFunkunder the Hankyu Takatsuki train station.  no SharpHerd Big Band. no shamisen jazz by Keisho Ohno.

if, if, if i feel 100 percent better, i may try to leave on friday to catch the last day of the festival.  more than likely i will stay home or close to home and rest.  Justo Almario is playing at LACMA on friday night.  and there should be some kind of Cinco de Mayo event this weekend even though it is only the Tres and Cuatro de Mayo.  Noriko has two much-sought-after tickets to see her beloved Kobukuro (see March 14th posting) on the 14th so i would like to accompany her to that sure-to-be excellent/brilliant/memorable concert at Osaka-jo Hall which is next to Osaka-jo (castle).

officially i do not have to work until the 17th of May but that may change to the 19th.  

so where i have been since my last post...Philadelphia, back to LA, Philadelphia (slept in airport crew room), Las vegas, Philadelphia (once again slept in crew room) and back home to LA on monday the 28th.  i walked to the clinic on monday after a long night and flight home...my cough actually caused a passenger to move to another seat.  and since being told that my cough that if you remember starting way back on the 9th of April (check April 11th post) was not just a simple cough, i have been trying to stay inside.  today i ventured out to walk a few errands...dry cleaning, market, post office and haircut.  now i will be content to watch the Celtics and Hawks at The Garden in game 5 on tv.  and update my blog.  i will find some photos to add later.  i still have hundreds and hundreds of photos that i would like to share from Japan.  and i have some new nice ones from the Chester, PA area and from Las Vegas.

time to say goodbye to April, my cough and...

(if you make it all the way thru the video clip, try to listen to the comments of a guy standing near but not too near to me... kind of funny).