... plugged in...

Okay, this is basically way too cool for me to get away with it, but I'll go with the flow...

After two weeks of too much travel and stress, intermittently interrupted by enjoyable things with people I like (and love), and even too-brief fragments of relaxation, I'm on the last night of the conference in York... we're in the bar; most of the soft chairs in the upper room were full, so we (with permission) dragged a metal table and chairs into the side hall, where the jazz group's sound is a bit muted (something that we all, this late night, need).

At this table: my dear friends Jenny and Sophie, and Jenny's husband Steve, and the brilliant Bill (Jenny and Bill just put on this conference, and are a bit giddy and in recovery as a result), plus The Famous George Lewis, trombonist and improviser. Very cool, eh?

George is copying CDs on his laptop – for no less than famous improviser/cellist Joëlle Léandre, who's drinking in the next room (and why didn't anybody tell me before tonight that she is a lesbian?); so I pulled my laptop out to hear Jody Powell's 'In That Bright World' – a gorgeous piece for gamelan (which was on the gamelan concert last night, but unfortunately they blew it – clearly as a result of inadequate rehearsal).

So I thought... well... as wifi finally seems to be working on this trip for me (it never has before) and I have been connected practically the whole time, I might as well fire off a blog entry... the kind of entry a Really Cool, techno-savvy, plugged-in musician would write when they were in a bar. With famous types. And a jazz combo. Oh, and: with headphones.

You might as well enjoy it – I don't stand at cultural/technological nexuses very often....

Comments

[Renee]

Keep the blog entries coming in. All makes interesting reading :-)