Details my latest trip back home to Iowa, where music, food, family and fun abound in plenty.
Posts Tagged as ‘jazz’
August 5, 2009
Meet Me at the Fair
This barker’s promotion for the best late-summer entertainment money can buy: the State Fair.
April 25, 2008
Where I’m Comin’ From
Now normally I would not send anyone, least of all my readers, to a really dodgy newspaper website. However, this particular one happens to be my hometown rag. The editor-in-chief is a drummer and a big fan of the jazz program in my hometown, so he always gives good coverage to the state championships, where [...]
February 28, 2008
Let’s start here
Why not start with some musicians for whom I have a great amount of respect. It’s not just because Chris is my brother-in-law. In fact, I knew him before I knew my wife. We were attending jazz camps together in Iowa as teenagers. Now he’s doing his thing in NYC, not [...]
