Our sincere condolences to Tiger Woods and family

CYPRESS, Calif. (AP/MSNBC, May 3, 2006) - Earl Woods, who was more determined to raise a good son than a great golfer and became the architect and driving force behind Tiger Woods’ phenomenal career, died Wednesday morning at his home in Cypress, Calif. He was 74.

“My dad was my best friend and greatest role model, and I will miss him deeply,” Tiger Woods said on his Web site. “I’m overwhelmed when I think of all of the great things he accomplished in his life. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend. I wouldn’t be where I am today without him, and I’m honored to continue his legacy of sharing and caring.”

Tiger, we share your pain.

Yogi explains Jazz

Interviewer: Yogi, can you explain jazz?

Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, it's right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.

Interviewer: I don't understand.

Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Interviewer: Do you understand it?

Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.

Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?

Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.

Interviewer: What is syncopation?

Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.

Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.

Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.
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Props to my friend Bill Jech. LOL!

Ronnie Foster Group update: ADRIAN GARCIA

Bassist Adrian Garcia has been playing with the Ronnie Foster Group at The Artisan lately, filling in for Blaise (for newbies, the other members are Santa Fe's Jerry Lopez, Jamie Hosmer, and Gabriel Falcon). I first met Adrian one night when he was gigging with local jazz guitar ace Michael Anthony Henegan at a west side restaurant owned by a friend of ours. I recall thinking at the time 'man, I'd love to have that cat in my band.' Adrian is fabulous. Formerly of the "Storm" show, and now a member of the 'Hairspray" show band along with Santa Fe's Dave Richardson, Adrian is rock-solid, fluid, percussive, powerful, and always tasteful (and his sound, the tone is excellent, makes it really easy to hear what he's doin'). He really fits together nicely with Gabriel. I would love to gig with Adrian. Man, the band was smokin' tonight. Adrian and Gabe were drivin' the train. The excellence, just unreal.

Yo, Ronnie, we playin ball tomorrow? Henderson? I can do that. Chaz has gotta work, but I can be there.

Below: Adrian with FBass designer George Furlanetto. Below that, Adrian on tour with Sheena Easton, during a show in Niagra Falls, NY.

Below: nice cat I hooked up with today, drummer and seriously cool all-round artist Dave Jaeger.

Click his name and visit his website. He's done some really fine graphics and photo work, and is an accomplished percussionist with a long resume. He and I are talkin' puttin' something together. Adrian says he'd play (man, that would be so cool!). I need to find a keyboardist/arranger, sax man TonyQ wants in, maybe we get us a trombone player and I'll just dust off my old late '70's Crusaders-ish "Birdland" book for starters. Hmmm...

Also, Jerry introduced me to yet another fine cat, Andy Ebon, VP of Marketing for Strokeland Records and owner of EBS Virtual Communications in Vegas. A pleasure and a privilege to have the introduction. Very nice man.

Lotta hip music available through the Strokeland site. Be sure to check it out.

UPDATE: a message from Jerry Lopez

My friends,

We have NOT as of this moment established a deal with the PALMS. They want us there, and we want to be there, but there are a lot of logistical matters to iron out.

So, we definitely WILL NOT be there this Monday, But if all goes well, we will be there the following Monday May 8th.

I will keep you all posted. Don't worry, if it doesn't work out there, we'll find a place to continue the "healing".

A bands gotta do what a band's gotta do!

- Jerry Lopez

PS. The Ronnie Foster band (Ronnie Foster, Gabriel Falcon, Jerry Lopez, Jamie Hosmer, Blaise Sison) are appearing this week on Thursday (tonight) and Saturday night at the ARTISAN Hotel just East of interstate 15 at 1501 W. Sahara, 89102 (702-214-4000)

Also, the Sunday night Jam at Hurricane bar and grill remains the top spot for great hang and music on Sunday nights! Check it out.

WILD.STANDING.ROOM.ONLY.CROWD.AGAIN

Monday, April 24th. Yikes! What a show tonight. More later. I got off the plane from Florida at about 8:20 p.m. (my Mom has been in the hospital, I left Friday to go tend to her. Mr. Next-of-Kin, my real job any more). Cheryl picked me up at McCarran. We went home, got the digital camera, and went straight to The Palms. Got a few good pics. We stayed till the end, me with jet lag and all, couldn't leave, it was SO good.

BobbyG says the best of the new arrangements has gotta be "Ain't That Peculiar?"...One thumpin', humpin', stompin' best-of-breed assemblage of pure nasty funk (tough call, they're all so good). Wish I had that cut on CD or mp3, man! I'd be drivin' around town with it up on richter-scale nosebleed, windows down...'take that, gangsta-rap homie-wannabees' (some of those cats remind me of that nebbish grey dude in the opening caught-in-traffic scene of the movie "Office Space").

A couple of pics below. My man Bobby Black was there shootin' pics with his major piece of photographic artillery. I hope he'll send a few our way. His stuff is awesome. Here I am crawlin' around doin' friggin' break-dance and yoga contortions on the floor up close to the stage tryin' to get good angles, and Bobby's sittin' in the back calmly grabbing killer shots incognito!

Bobby, bail me out, dude, my pics suck next to yours, bro'...LOL! Thanks to everyone for coming to the show. Let's hope the Suits "get it" and do a long-term deal. The Lounge will be the new "hang" for hip music lovers in Vegas, guaranteed (we will certainly produce the show performer crowd, if the last two Monday nights are any indication, the Vegas showroom A-List was out in force).

BTW: Check out Lenny Lopez's new "Ritmo" band website: www.theritmo.com. As their gigging schedule fills in, I'll keep y'all posted.

Recall my prior blog post on Ritmo.

Other news: the hot CECILIA NOEL! Just got an email announcing next Saturday's performance by Cecilia Noel, at The Temple Bar in Santa Monica. If I didn't have so much else going on right now, I'd drive down there just for that, sounds like it'll be "Shock and Awe" (as Jerry called her act). I posted about her on the blog (w/some audio and video cuts) earlier. (scroll down)

Much love to everyone in the Santa Fe tribe. I'm glad to be home. Don't forget Ronnie Foster's 10 p.m. gig Thursdays and Saturdays at The Artisan Hotel. That is a great venue, and Ronnie and the guys throw down big-time. Ronnie's piano chops are beyond description. Check him out if you haven't yet.

4-24, TONIGHT, The PALMS, without YOU, we are NOTHING

10 p.m. tonight, y'all come. Let the Healing begin yet again.

UPDATE: Bro' Lenny Lopez has a new band ("Ritmo") and a new website: www.theritmo.com

Monday 4-24 update

Tonight, THE Lounge at the Palms, 10 pm, Jerry Lopez, the Mayor Fat City, and his City CounciL of Supreme Funk and Salsa will again issue their musical edict of excellence: "Let The Healing Begin..."

Also: Dr. Lenny's new group "Ritmo" now has a website: www.theritmo.com Check it out!

WILD.STANDING.ROOM.ONLY.CROWD

Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns just hit this one outa the park, ripped the cover clean off the ball and sent it screaming into the next time zone. Yikes! This town has a lot of superior musical and vocal talent. Fourteen of the very best of them were onstage at The Palms Monday night, and most of the rest who weren't gigging were in the audience. Lotta love in that room, all the way around. One amazing evening. Let's do it again next week. Thanks to all of you for showing up to support this great band, all of you who so obviously "get it." The new arrangments were spectacular -- "You Need a Hero," "Ain't That Peculiar," and "Use Me." Everybody dug them to the max. You really can't just call them "covers," they are creative, sophisticated original "treatments."

In my prior post I wrote "I predict a wild SRO crowd." YES!!! (I wish my sports outcomes predictions were that good, LOL!)

BTW- Last night photographer and performer Bobby Black brought me a CD of his shots from one of the Santa Fe Boulder Station gigs. I can't wait to look through them and post some for y'all. Bobby does great work, check out his website. UPDATE BELOW: Here's just one quick pic upload from Bobby's CD -- The Petersons' guest night at Boulder Station. The compression you get from that big telephoto lense, man! "...gonna keep on tryin', 'till I reach the Higher Ground..."

UPDATE: just got an email from brother Blaise (re the Family Stone Experience):

Hey Bobby, if you can make it, FSE is performing this weekend at the new Red Rock casino Fri. and Sat. in the main lounge. We hit @ 9:00pm doing 75 min. shows both nights. Come down and hear all the Sly and the Family Stone hits!

www.familystoneexperience.com
www.myspace.com/familystoneexperience

Thank You....for lettin' me be mice elf..... Blaise.
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UPDATE2, OFF-TOPIC: Indulge proud Papa for a sec, OK? My ace grantwriter and not-for-profit program developer Daughter recently prevailed over nearly 100 candidates to be selected as the new Executive Director of First Tee of Southern Nevada, where, I have no doubt, she will do great work. I scanned her new business card:

I would predict that Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns might well be asked to throw down the "Nast" at a First Tee fundraiser before long. Below, Danielle (bottom) and her late big sister Sissy, 1974 in Seattle:

While we're indulging, meet the equally fabulous Grandson, Keenan (click his pic. Man, that serve! 12 years old, LOL!!).

Monday, April 17th 2006, THE Lounge in The Palms

The long and eagerly awaited Monday night gig return of our beloved Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns, 10 pm. New arrangements are reportedly on tap. The venue is "THE Lounge," just inside to the right of the main valet entrance on Flamingo. Beautiful room, the acoustics oughta be great. I predict a wild SRO crowd.

UPDATE: setup and rehearsal

To the entire Santa Fe tribe, on- and offstage, on the occasion of Easter

At this time of deep reverence and reflection for so many of us, may all of us who are so blessed in this life not lose sight of the religion of Jesus during a time of the most intense story about Jesus. We have the capacity -- and the moral obligation -- to make this world the just, loving, and peaceful place of His longing. In a very real sense, without you, He is nothing.

We can do it. That is the simple faith that carries me forward, a faith fortified by my having come to know all of you.

- BobbyG

Ritmo - Brother Lenny's new band

Español
n. - cadencia, ritmo

1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory.
2. The measure or beat of movement, as in dancing or marching.

I got invited to come to the Stirling Club at Turnberry tonight to hear the debut of Lenny Lopez's new band "Ritmo." The roster includes Lenny on vocals and percussion, Joe Bergeron on percussion, Blaise Sison on bass, Gabriel Falcon on drums, Felix Buehler on guitar (tasty chops, dude!), and Mike Gonzalez on keyboards. The Music Director at The Stirling Club is the beautiful, talented, and gracious Kelly Clinton. Check out her awesome website.

Lenny first sat in with the house group, and then did a set with his new band Ritmo. They cooked. The crowd was delighted. I was delighted. My cup runneth over to continue to bear witness to all this excellence, and to continue to meet all these extremely nice people. Kelly, thank you! Below: Lenny and Kelly. Below that: Dr. Lenny soars on vocals, as usual.

It was a way cool evening. Bobby Black was there and also sat in. What a voice! More later. I gotta go crash. I got hoops with my nephew and niece tomorrow.

UPDATE: MickiJay profiles Gabriel

My favorite percussionist, GABRIEL FALCON!!! What a pair of hands on this guy. I like the way his hair flies and his shoulders move. He's a drummin' funk machine.

He plays timbales, congos, bongos and is self-taught although he credits his father, Noe Falcon for influencing him as a kid. Noe wrote, sang, played bass and guitar. Gabe has two sisters and five brothers (he's second to the eldest) who are all musicians! The family toured for twenty years as the "Fabulous Falcons". The family moved to Azusa, and in 1973 it all began. In the 1990's, he found his niche with salsa and latin jazz.

He has played with vocalist Maria Conchita Alonso as her percussionist, and these days backs Clint Holmes (since January, 2005 when he replaced Lenny Lopez), the Ronnie Foster Band at Sedona and of course, he's essential with Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns.

As for being influenced, he mentions Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Clyde Stubbelfeld, Tito Puente and Shiela Easton. I'm sure there's more.

Now for the personal stuff: he's engaged and will be inheriting a 16 yr old daughter, he lives in the south east and is 43 years young. What a catch!!

He's recorded a lot of independent projects with the family and Sante Fe. Gabe said it was a pleasure working with Bruce Conte from Tower of Power and Jeff Lorber, who he has backed up. He's got history to him.

In 2001, Jerry Lopez was looking for a percussionist and called Gabe. He auditioned at Storm at Mandalay Bay. Obviously, he got the gig.

He's got some hobbies like building car models, watching videos, and of course, he practices daily. I remarked about his body movement when he's playing and he said that it comes "naturally".He's got a 2003 Chevy Trail Blazer and likes to hit the road to check out Mesquite and California. There's nothing like the open road to clear your mind, if you can drive and find an "open road".

Did you realize he's the guy who does the set-up? He puts all of the instruments, amps, and cables together the morning of the show and tears everything down when it's over. Whata a job. This man cares a lot, and we care for him too!

-- MickiJay

Ronnie Foster update

Keyboardist extraordinaire (and hoops maniac) Ronnie Foster of the Clint Holmes show is moving his weekend jazz gig (featuring Santa Fe's Jerry, Jamie, and Gabriel, with Blaise Sison on bass) from The Sedona Club to The Artisan Hotel (south side of Sahara, just east of I-15). Music starts at 10 pm this Saturday. I will certainly be there. Join us. Ronnie's piano chops are beyond description -- at once crushing and delicate, and his vocal ability is exquisite. I've been fussin' at him about getting a CD out and a website up. This music business giant deserves much broader visibility.

UPDATE:12:10 am, Easter Sunday

The gig at the Artisan is a smashing SRO success. The spacious lounge is just beautiful and leather sofa sitting-room comfortable, the acoustics are fine. Lenny Lopez says "this is gonna be the new Hang." Clint Holmes (below) came by and sat in. He did an Al Jarreau/Bobby McFerrin-worthy scat singing / vocal percussion "4's" solo with drummer Gabriel Falcon during a pumped-up rendition of "Rio" that brought the house down. It was a love feast. The new "Hang."

Happy Birthday, Amigo!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Jerry Lopez, happy birthday, our fearless leader. May your long life of making the world a better place continue in health, happiness, and success for decades to come. We will all come to the Palms to joyously celebrate your birthday belatedly next Monday night.

Update message from Jerry Lopez

Folks,

Just a reminder that we are getting closer to APRIL 17th, the night we open at the PALMS casino in "THE lounge". We will start at 10:15, and we're all really looking forward to being back onstage together. We'll have a few new pieces of music for you, and we're always excited about that!

ALSO, Please go check out our friends the Level 8 band, and Shipleyfunk band at Hooters Hotel/Casino at the Martini 13 Lounge 10-2 am nightly.

AND, the HURRICANE BAR AND GRILL on Sunday nights!!! the best jam session in town, with all the "real cats"!

PLUS, the RONNIE FOSTER band every Friday and Saturday night at SEDONA restaurant on Flamingo and West 215

You will find members of Santa Fe playing in ALL of these bands, and we all value your support of LIVE MUSIC in LAS VEGAS.

THE HEALING is "fittin" to commence!

-Jerry Lopez

My Bro' Kurt

When I started this blog, I made reference to a dear old friend and former early '70's Seattle bandmate (oh! that hair! Ouch!), incredible drummer/keyboardist/singer/composer Kurt the-Koala-Bear Kolstad. This cat could play with our Santa Fe, no sweat. Google his name, check out his history. Dude kicks major butt, and is a great, great person.

Well, here's the text of an email announcement I got today from Joe Turner, another of our friends up in the PacNW:

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A Tribute to Kurt Kolstad
It takes a small army of drummers to cover Kurt's gigs...

April 9th, 2 PM – Jazzbones
2803 6th Avenue, Tacoma
253-396-9169
www.jazzbones.com

Featuring performances by:

• Type A!
• Players Club
• Alive-N-Well
• Danny Ward & Reality
• Members of The Reputations
• The New Blues Brothers
• Wickerman

And a silent auction:

• art
• food
• vacations
• spa treatment
• services & more

Suggested admission: $20 donation at the door

In December 2005 Kurt Kolstad was diagnosed with lymphoma. Kurt's friends and fellow musicians have come together to produce the Kurt Kolstad Tribute to raise funds to help pay the costs of his chemotherapy treatment. With the love and support of his wife and young son, Kurt will win this fight. Soon He'll back at the drums playing in all his bands.

Kurt Kolstad - While playing trumpet in his jr. high band, Kurt Kolstad asked one of the drummers if he could try his drum sticks. When he picked them up, something came over him - "I felt like I had held those sticks all of my life," said Kolstad. Those sticks lead Kurt on a journey that would take him all over the world.

Since that time he has played with literally hundreds of bands and artists including Tower of Power, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Miles, Junior Wells, Rich Dangel and the Reputation, Alive-N-Well, Seattle All Stars, Living Proof, Space, Jazz Terrorists, Dick Powel Band, Little Bill and the Blue Notes, ButterBean, Michael Powers, Darren Motamady, Craig Lawrence Band, New Blues Brothers, to name a few.

Kurt, whose music has been played in literally every country in the world via radio, TV, film series and cinema film, is also a published song writer and an active member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). Kurt has spent countless hours in the recording studio as a session player for many artists including recent noteworthy releases by Dave Lanz - Skyline/Fire Dance and Sacred Road, which have now sold into the millions, and the computer animated video, "The Minds Eye". Kurt's impressive musical accomplishments, as well as his many outstanding personal characteristics, have touched thousands of people.

Overview: The tribute will take place at Jazzbones on Sunday, April 9th - 2pm. The event will also feature a silent auction (art; food; vacations; spa treatment; services & more). Suggested admission: $20 donation at the door.

For more info: www.southsoundpromotions.com/kolstad.htm
Or contact: Michael Kinder
mkinder@wa.net
253-219-4140

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I don't know whether I'll be able to go, but I'll be sending stuff for the auction and making a personal donation. If any of y'all are up that way that weekend, be sure to go if you can. I'm sure the music will be awesome, and the cause is way worthy.

Some other news of note and interest

My friend and fellow Santa Fe craz-o Steve Tuminello has hipped me to an L.A. band known as "Pretzel Logic." He gave me a nicely done promo DVD of them. They do an uncanny Steely Dan thang -- no easy task. Check out a Quicktime movie excerpt here. They are dead-on, note for note. That is too cool.

Movin' to The Palms!

The Palms! April 17th! Save the date! Can we all hang on that long, 3 and 1/2 weeks? I just got the word from Jerry via email. It is VERY important that we all spread the news and rally the troops to show the Palms brass just how much this band means to Vegas and beyond. We gotta be SRO on the 17th. I think this is about the best new venue they could have, in terms of the Maloofs' hip target crowd. YES! The venue is simply "The Lounge," just inside to the right of the front main/valet entrance on Flamingo (click here for casino floor map -- warning, PDF file).

MORE COOL STUFF...

So, Jerry tells me all these cool backstories about different players he's known or been involved with over the years. For instance, Jimmy Kimmel show Music Director Cleto Escobedo III was in Jerry's old Santa Fe band before moving on to great success in the L.A. scene. Among his many gigs was a stint in this wild-assed killer group that Kenny Loggins and Chicago drummer Tris Imboden played in, known as "Cecilia Noel and The Wild Clams." OhmyGod!

Well, after seeing the racy website, I had to, of course, order a CD, one entitled "Delivery." Man...

Here's an mp3 cut from the CD entitled "Mambo!" (another of my favs on the CD is "Pronto Salsa") "Salsoul" all right. Very reminiscent of our guys (if more Latin-flavored). Jerry tells me that the frequently rotating lineup of this band included many of the L.A. (and worldwide) scene heavyweights, including folks like Simon Phillips (Toto), Dave Weckl, Jimmy Earl, Bernie Dresel, Jeff Babko, etc, etc, etc. Here's a QuickTime movie montage clip of the act. Yep. Yep. Yep. Jerry says that their live gigs were, in his exact words, "Shock and Awe, man..." I take it that Peruvian emigre Cecilia was/is -- well, shall we say -- uninhibited! (uh, hello? "The Wild Clams"? Tunes like "Slam the Clam"? Use your imagination).

Great stuff. "The Wild Clams" regrettably, are no more, but there are a number of CDs available, and Cecilia is still performing. Got my "Delivery" CD on CD Baby (check the blog links column).

Emergency Rx

Take 2 and pop the CD in. Turn it up LOUD!

Give it up for Vegas's Dian Diaz

We gotta give props to local performer Dian Diaz (now appearing at Bellagio in the Fontana Lounge) for the good news that showed up in our local paper this morning. We wish her all the success in the world with her new CD. Click on her name and check out her website. Listen to some clips from her CD. Then buy a copy. And, go see her perform.

Q: Who brought this beautiful and talented woman to Las Vegas?

A: None other than our own Maestro, the visionary Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns leader Jerome Lopez. Figures.

UPDATE: 2:25 a.m. - weather in Brian Head, Utah (via the Weather Channel): "Snow likely. Cold. High 26F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. 4 to 6 inches of snow expected. Tonight: Snow likely. Low around 15F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 80%. 5 to 8 inches of snow expected." OK, gonna be interesting trying to get up there. BobbyG is leaving in about 30 minutes (Jerry, may not see ya at Sedona unless I get back in time). 4WD, packing chains. Gonna be puttin' 'em on, I suspect. Giant Steps lift, here I come...

UPDATE2: 7 p.m. Home safely. The rides up and back were WAY stressful. Snow started at St. George (it was still dark), continuing all the way up, and it was even still snowing in the Virgin River Gorge below St. George as we returned (even the mountains and foothills south of Mesquite were painted bright white -- beautiful).

By mid-afternoon at Brian Head it was snowing so heavily visibility was down to about 200-300 feet. Blinded, I lost the edge of a trail on one run and crashed and burned so hard head-first I was completely submerged under a snowbank, and, after I dug myself out, I had to dig around frantically just to find one of my completely buried skis, LOL! (it wasn't funny at the time; it was kinda freaky)

Signature silky Utah powder. They got about 8 inches today, 36" total for the current storm the past few days. Pics below: [1] 7:45 a.m. Utah Time, about 10 minutes from Brian Head, chains and 4WD, just like I'd figured. [2] Keenan and Danielle, my Grandson and Daughter, as we were about to head back home (her first time skiing. She ROCKED!). It was snowing almost whiteout intensity by the time we left. I'm suckin' on some Australian Shiraz at the moment, tryin' to finish warming up, glad to be home safe.

UPDATE 3/15/06 - Dian Diaz's CD has hit# 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Congratulations. You GO, girl!

JUST IN: A MESSAGE FROM JERRY

My friends,

We are NO LONGER AT BOULDER STATION.

First of all I want to thank everyone for coming out last Monday night for our "guest night" appearance of St. Paul and Jason Peterson! It was a BALL!!

The band decided that because of the location of the Boulder Station, and the size of the room, it would be better if we found a new "home". It's just too hard to create that intimate feeling we all like in such a big room. Those of you that have been there know what I mean.

I am working on a couple of places that are located closer to the strip and have adequate sound and lighting facilities.

If anyone out there has a suggestion or a connection, please let me know. In the meantime, I am busy writing, and our arrangers are busy arranging, and hopefully when we start up at our new location we will have some new original music and some kick-ass arrangements of cool covers.

I will keep everyone posted, and please continue to visit the blog.

Your friend,

Jerry Lopez

Peterson Family Week in Vegas: Coda

So, last night I get home from work, and my CD Baby order of the Peterson family compilation is in my mailbox. BUY IT. If these people didn't exist, some novelist would have to invent them -- and no one would believe it. My email exchange with Jerry:

BTW- at the moment I got the Peterson Family "Best of..." CD playin' - just got here from CD Baby. YIKES!!! Beyond the funk, the cabaret jazz stuff, OhMyGod!...speaks to me (old school that I am).

- Bobby

Yes, the Petersons, they are not fooling around. They make it look that way, but they are surgeons.

- JL