David Freeman Music

Here we go! December 1, 2022: Atlanta, GA. I played a little quartet gig for an awards ceremony for home renovations. It was nuts, because the winners would be "The winner for 2022's best mudroom renovation is So and So Designs, who spent $112,000 on cabinets and a bench and expensive tile floor in this gorgeous Morningside Mansion!" Over and over. Big, insane budgets. $80,000 man cave kind of stuff. A renovation to your three car garage at your cabin at Lake Hartwell.  Anyway, the gig was pretty cool. I thought it was going to be a jazz standards kind of thing, but it ended up being more eclectic, like instrumental versions of Stevie Wonder songs. I played an hour of solo saxophone for the cocktail hour, and that was my big chance to wear myself out playing over standards. Friday, December 2, 2022: New York. The next day, it was off to the airport, headed to LaGuardia.  Night one at The Paramount on Long Island was packed, and as usual, a really good vibe.  Saturday, D...

Here's another massive blog update... First of all, remember how I was going on and on in the previous blog about the musical at Kennesaw State, and how much it paid, and how the union was discouraging local musicians for playing for low wages? Well, it may have bit me in the ass. It took fifty-eight days to get paid! I let it go for a couple of weeks because these sort of shows aren't hip enough to have a check waiting on your music stand before the last show. Finally I inquired about the money--maybe I'd thrown it in the recycling bin by chance? No such luck. First it was some sort of error in the purchase order that the theatre bookkeeper had written--the dates didn't match or something, and the university refused to pay. After a week or two, they worked that out, and the university sent out a direct deposit (or so they said). It did not show up. After a week of waiting, I asked again. This time, it was because the university had "switched banks" and some t...