I may not have a new video EVERY day from now on, and I'll probably just sprinkle in some good schadenfreude whenever it seems appropriate to do so...and I just hate that I missed posting this beauty on Easter Sunday!  Here it is, a day late:

I checked out the second half of a great show at J.B.'s, Sacramento's premiere jazz club, last night.  Joe Berry, an extraordinarily talented young saxophonist, and Jessie Clemens, formerly the lead soprano of my top groups at Sac State for five years and now freelance jazz vocalist in town, led a talented group in a tribute concert to the Getz/Gilberto sound.  Very tasty and refined work from both of them.  Clemens' grasp of Portuguese was a big hit with the crowd, and I dug it, too, but my favorite thing about her singing was her total sense of ease and poise onstage, and her mesmerizing use of tone and air to tell the story.

Julia got the first three or so pages sung on a new demo for "Lorem Ipsum," a contemporary classical women's group piece I wrote for Naperville North High School for the past fall.  We're just now getting to the demo, unfortunately, but the good news is that it's sounding really, really great.  I think it may be popular with a totally different crowd than normally buys my charts, and I may have to write a few more of these, if they're going to sound this good on the demos!  Seriously...it's killing, and totally different than anything else I've written.  If you're curious about the Latin text for the piece (based on the title)...just do a quick Google search and see for yourself.  :)