It’s been an exhilarating and exhausting week. Last Sunday I arrived in Warsaw with fellow New Yorkers Jane Getter (guitar), Kim Clarke (bass) and Camille Gainer (drums) to play a show with Urszula Dudjiak. Great musicians and Urszula is phenomenal. A nice surprise was that the great violinist Michael Urbaniak also sat in, as well as their daughter vocalist Mika Urbaniak who is also a great talent.
Wednesday AM I flew to Madrid where I played two nights at Bogui Jazz for the Madrid Jazz Festival with Masa Kamaguchi on bass and Billy Mintz on drums. It was a blast. So great to play with Masa again. Of course it’s always great to play with Billy but I get to play with him all the time. I am so spoiled!
Last night we played Jazz Cava in Terrassa. It’s a beautiful space and the music was very well received.
Sunday Billy and I fly to Innsbruck, Austria for three a three-day workshop at a local school there and a gig with another great guitarist, Roland Heinz. Then I fly to Lviv, Ukraine to play with Klaus Kugel (dr), Petras Vysniauskas (ss), Yuri Yaremchuk (ts, cl, bcl), Mark Tokar (b) there and then in Sanok, Poland.
From there back to Barcelona for a date at Jamboree with Masa and Billy, then a couple of days in Berlin to unwind, and home again to NY for our Dec. 19 hit at the Kitano.