Ah the day after. What a nice day of the year. It’s the chill day. The day of saying, ok all that holiday stress is gone. Should there be holiday stress? No. But people seem to get it anyway.
What did you get as goodies for gifts?
I got a new pair of sunglasses, a custom framed picture of my name in the credits of Material Girls, a Kitchen-Aide mixer (woo hoo!), and in my name a Chicken was donated to a family in a far away country by the Heifer foundation.
For me, I’ll be spending a relaxing day indoors thinking about nada. Mostly likely getting a huge fill of TV – in case you don’t know, I don’t actually own a TV so Christmas time is when I tend to get my yearly fill of it.
Johnston and Lear let me blog this song. What grabbed me right away is the amazing sound of the Sax. I feel like I’m in that room listening to the horn player blow his heart out on it. That’s a great quality to have, space. It’s the thing that I think has lacked in a lot of my early recordings but is finally coming to my own recordings. Space is what seems to separates most indies and self-recorded artists from the level of the big boys. It’s a subtle thing, but it’s that little thing that makes all the difference.
I understand that Jazz isn’t the commercial powerhouse that it probably was in say the 40’s. But something like this, I could listen to on a more regular basis. At least when I’m in the mood to chill out. It’s got flavor and flavor is something that is missing from lots of things. So I’m presenting it here for you as a spice to your life. Expand. Reach out. Explore. Enjoy. Oh yeah, support. I recommend plunkin’ down the cash for this on iTunes.