{"id":373,"date":"2009-09-21T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/gigs-and-friends\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:59:07","slug":"gigs-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/gigs-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigs and friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a fun week of music! On Thursday and Friday nights, I performed with Kymberly Jackson, and her band, Urban Legends (Mark Daniels<\/a>, guitar, Charleston Quinn, bass, Brian Braziel<\/a>, drums). I had a great time playing with them! Kymberly chooses an energetic mix of jazz and R&B that keeps the crowd moving. On Saturday night, I performed my regular piano\/singing gig at Marcello\u2019s and tried out a couple of new songs that went over well with the patrons.<\/p>\n

Today, I performed with Papa Gianni<\/a> in Berkeley. Papa Gianni is a near nonagenarian who still sings and puts on a show! I get the chance to play everything from popular Italian love songs to classical arias to polkas to jazz standards. It\u2019s definitely a fun gig, but not for the faint of heart: good luck with anyone providing a score or chord chart, and even if they do, it\u2019s rarely in the right key! But, of course, I\u2019m never one for backing down from a challenge.<\/p>\n

After my gig, I went to a house music party thrown by Napata<\/a>. She had apparently performed earlier, but missed her. The theme of her event was \u201cCadillac Records\u201d. I caught the performances of Darlene Coleman<\/a> and Alvon Johnson<\/a>, in the roles of Etta James and Muddy Waters. Both were amazing! And I got to see my friends Jimmy McKinney, keys, Eddie, drums, and Rusty Allen, bass, backing everyone up.<\/p>\n

Next, I went to Yoshi\u2019s San Francisco (They\u2019ve been seeing a lot of me this week!) to see Tony Lindsay<\/a> perform with Myron Dove<\/a>, John Burr, Darian Gray and Ken Harrill<\/a>. They were great! Guitarist Chris Cain<\/a> made a cameo appearance and playing a WICKED guitar solo on Tony\u2019s song \u201cShoulda been there\u201d from his self-titled CD \u201cTony Lindsay\u201d. After the concert, I saw how many of my friends were in attendance. It\u2019s always beautiful to see my super talented friends, especially since, as a performer, I so rarely get to attend concerts.
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Photos of me with Janice Maxie-Reid<\/a>, Myron Dove<\/a> and Lisa Bautista<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all of my friends for coming to my shows this week: Amy, Ken, Bruce, Rodney, Caroline, Lynette, Robert, Jeff and Sophie. I appreciate you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a fun week of music! On Thursday and Friday nights, I performed with Kymberly Jackson, and her band, Urban Legends (Mark Daniels, guitar, Charleston Quinn, bass, Brian Braziel, drums). I had a great time playing with them! Kymberly chooses an energetic mix of jazz and R&B that keeps the crowd moving. On Saturday night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}