Randyland

For those in Chicago, the next show I’ll be playing is Thursday, July 16th at Green Dolphin Street, with The Pinups. The current image on my blog and Facebook page are from a gig that I did with them.

I highly recommend seeing this show if you can make it. It’s a 1940’s, Andrew’s Sisters style. With a bit of music from the early 50’s as well. There will be a decent-sized backing band as well. They are a great time!

From my own point of view on this one, I’m plaing sax, mostly tenor. The music ranges from fairly easy blues to some somewhat difficult jazzy numbers. Lots of sheet music. Lots of sightreading, which, I now realize, I’m rusty at (so I have some woodshedding to do!) But it’s been great playing with them, and I’m looking forward to the show.

This is the kind of stuff I envisioned myself doing coming out of highschool, and contemplating a degree in music. I just realized that it would be difficult to make a living at it at the time. Fortunately, I’ve been able to keep doing music, and am now more involved than I probably could have been if I had done it for a living. With the book I wrote, as well as the 18 albums that my band released, I can still even do things like playing with the Pinups, who have an exciting future.

There’s more Beatnik Turtle Gigs coming up more news about it soon. I’ll also be doing some teaching at the Music Industry Workshop this week, and also next month, and I’ll talk about that in upcoming posts.