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Friends, all good your way. I just got home from a late afternoon surf.
The waves are up and the water is summer warm. Optimum situation
Indeed! I've been working on the railroad over here at SpragueLand with
SF vocalist Jennifer Lee on her new CD. We've been at it all week with
Bob Magnusson and Duncan in the loop along with Bootsa - an amazing
bassist from the old world plus Raul on percussion who carries the
spirit of happiness with him at all times. It's been great and intense
all rolled into one. Bro' Tripp is coming in tomorrow for some sax and
harmonica overdubs and Jennifer is playing both piano and guitar along
with her beautiful vocals. Look for her new recording in a couple of
months. Sweet! Last week was a hurricane of great new frontiers.
Leonard's CD release concert at Dizzy's was a true success including
creative musos exploring Leonard's original tunes mixed in with the
fact that the physical CD's actually made it there on time. You can't
believe how many CD Release concerts take place with the CD's still
sitting at the duplication plant waiting to get completed. It was a
close one, but indeed Leonard's ****pment of discs were on hand and it
looked like a bunch of folks we're digging into it realtime. Stoke for
Leonard and if you don't have his new music you ought to check it out
here. It's a good one. Maestro Fred Benedetti and I had a very
inspiring time performing at the Ravi Shankar event. The whole setup
was so cool with an Indian look and feel, incredible sound and visuals,
video postcards from George Harrison's wife and Nora Jones among many
others, a fantastic Indian dance duo, a trio of young (11 and 14 year
olds along with Mom) classical musos who absolutely tore it up on some
Mendelssohn, and then Fred and I we're the final act. We had a great
moment with my "Width of the World" piece along with my semi-whacked
version of the Beatles "With a Little Help From My Friends", playing it
for the big group of folks along with Ravi and his entourage.
Afterwards Fred and I said hello to Ravi and he said he dug what we
were up to and that we ought to go to India with him. Fantastic and
when do we leave? Any surfing in Bombay? It was great to meet such an
inspired and lovely human being. Ravi rips!
For this week Leonard and I are heading to Temecula tomorrow night for
a concert at The Merc. They have an ongoing Thursday night series and
we're stoked to be included. I hope to see you there especially for the
folks that are further off the North County grid. Also this week
Gunnar, Tripp and I begin the Summer of Sprague's at the Libraries
World Tour with a show at the Rancho San Diego Library. These are
really cool events with all ages welcome and the whole setup is built
for listening and having the option for silence to be part of the
music. Sure looking forward to it... That's it and stay well, Peter
Thursday June 19, 2008 Peter Sprague
Jazz At The Merc Old Town Temecula
Community Theatre
42051 Main Street
Temecula, CA 92590 details Peter
Sprague -- guitar
Leonard Patton -- vocals 7:30 PM Heading inland for a
jazz show at the classic old theatre in Temecula.
Sunday June 22, 2008 Peter Sprague Trio Rancho San Diego Library
11555
Via Rancho San Diego
El Cajon, CA 92019
(619) 660-5370 details Peter
Sprague -- guitar
Tripp Sprague -- sax and flute
Gunnar Biggs -- bass 2 PM
We're thinking that libraries are the new frontier for creative music.
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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
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