Saturday night I was fortunate to pick up a jazz gig for a corporate reception downtown--1,200 industrial-organizational psychologists. I was informed that they were workplace psychologists--"we study why people are or are not happy in their jobs"--which I thought was kind of funny considering how difficult they'd been at my job! Let's just say the event was not well run, and for a two hour event there was a good four hours worth of bullshit.
The band tonight was Tyrone Jackson on keyboard and Kevin Smith on bass. We also had an old man play clarinet with us (who was pretty dang good!), and the former president of the organization sang and played piano (not so good).
We played mostly my tunes, plus a couple of Pat Metheny songs, a Joey Calderazzo thing, and an Ellis Marsalis favorite. We had a great time playing!
Here are the mp3s:
Leigh was our handler for this event. She made sure I didn't strangle anyone. davidfreemanmusic.net
