Well, I gotta be a little careful here, 'cause the object of my affection is still a mite shy at accepting compliments, but........

Watching Jeri sing her song at the Saturday night concert was a real high point for me. She absolutely nailed it! Great delivery, pitch, dynamics and timing. This gal's gonna be heard from, mark my words.

Among some other notable moments that I'll probably mention over the next couple of weeks was Rita EXPLAINING her Zither. Sure, we've all seen these things, but exactly how they're tuned and played has never been clear to me. Now it is. Thanks.

Two hours in the middle of the night with a man named Joel who plays piano very much like Leroy Carr. Jeri joined us for a while, but mostly we absolutely POUNDED out Carr and Scrapper Blackwell blues to a huge dark empty Gym. T'was great fun. My little 0-18 Martin probably doesn't know what hit it...I've never played harder or louder on it.....felt like it was 1930 and I WAS Scrapper! Yeah!

Rick