I missed Zigaboo!

Can you believe it? According to this video, Zigaboo Modeliste played in Rockefeller, Oslo, on 30.07.2010... which means that I already lived here, yet I missed it?! How could I???  I must follow concert listings more closely from now on.

Here's another cool New Orleans related video: Erykah Badu, playing with Zigaboo and some others...

I love the Rebirth Brass Band, and I love the Maple Leaf

I just returned from New Orleans, where I saw the Rebirth Brass Band in the Maple Leaf Bar once again. After all these years, they still play there every week, and if I would live there, I'd probably be there to see their show in this place every week too. It's quite an experience, which can never be fully captured by a video.

How things are connected

Sometimes it's strange how things are connected in this world... here are two examples.

1) Just before going to Beijing, in this posting, I wrote about the Steve Gadd drum lick (broken doubles between hi-hat and snare) from Rickie Lee Jones' "Chuck E's in Love". You can hear it here.

Now I'm back from China. In Hongkong (a part of a private trip after working in Beijing), we went to see a jam session in a bar. People there told me that the drummer is really good ... and then, during a solo, he played exactly this lick :-) - things are connected in this world, and drummers love Steve Gadd everywhere.

2) Another strange coincidence: I'm a big fan of the new orleans keyboard player / singer Jon Cleary, and was hoping to finally see his band when I get to New Orleans again later this year (late Nov / early Dec). Turns out that he plays in Treibhaus with John Scofield (and George Porter Jr. from the Meters on bass! wow!) on 1 December... so I'll miss him because I'll be in New Orleans!

Jimmy

...ordered a Frankfurter when we went for a game of Billard the other day (I beat him twice, ha!). He put mustard + horseradish + the two sausages on bread 1, added bread 2 on top of that, and tried to eat it like a hamburger - because that's how he thought it's supposed to be eaten! Americans...

Then again, I have to thank him for taking this picture of the mighty Trento goose, "L'occa piu grande del mondo", which was set up for Feste Vigiliane. I told almost everybody about it, but only few have seen it...


Well; bye Jimmy, have a good trip home, and don't forget to visit the Louisiana Music Factory in your hometown!