gig facts

Stuff you might not have known about me:

Every jazz gig, if it's one I have a say in (like a Protagonists gig or Dolores del Rio), we play at least one song we've never played before. Often it's one that I make up on the spot.

Every jazz gig, I work in "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," either the main theme or JS Bach's immortal hook. I remember first hearing, in high school, that Bach inscribed each piece of music he wrote to the glory of God, whether it was a sacred or secular piece. That was important to me at a time when youth ministers and music ministers were hitting us with unhealthy ideas about the sacred and the secular.