How awesome is this picture?
- via Secret Fun Blog

Merry Christmas!

I had a strange moment today when visiting out the new Winter Garden Library – I was checking out the new facility, looking through the books, DVDs, and CDs. I noticed they had a substantial jazz section, so I flipped through to see if there was anything interesting. Up comes a cool blue cover with a peculiar name for a jazz group -
The Bad Plus.

I check the track names. Smells Like Teen Spirit. Neat! I also see a track named Flim – now this has me thinking. I had heard about 15 seconds of a jazz cover of one of my all time favorite Aphex Twin songs, Flim, on WUCF, the local jazz radio station when driving around with my wife one day. I thought… “I would love to know who’s covering that.” I hope to someday be in a group that does jazz/electronic live combo music.

So I check out the CD, pop it into the car CD player, and sure enough – it is the one and the same track I heard on the radio. My wife says it’s proof that destiny exists. I say it’s just wild coincidence. Regardless, I have a new favorite CD, and also found about an awesome group, Halloween, Alaska, that features the same drummer from The Bad Plus.

I love finding new great music.

Here’s a shot of me drumming from the
House of Blues during the Unsung Zeros set.

…and a shot that Jay took
of me during the Abagnale set.

Pretty tiring playing two sets in the same night!