We are just about a quarter of the way through the year and it is getting more interesting on the musical front. Ms Mac is now into the spring schedule and keeping me quite occupied most weekends. This next weekend, however, is going to be dedicated to the debut of Tangential. This project started out as a duo with Allen Pitts and myself doing, what I expected, would be similar to the improv-based Narada Weeps shows of the past. Well, we have twisted things up a bit since then. First, Allen has some wonderful compositions that come from the ambient/smooth jazz side of things and we are going to base the show around those. Second, Allen's multi-instrumental talents were inherited by his son, Alex, so we have decided to make Tangential's debut a trio performance.
Unfortunately, due to my constricted vehicle access and scheduling issues, every attempt we have made to put together a practice has fallen through. This means, while I have had a CD of the core song forms we will be playing, our first time to actually play any of this together will be the performance itself. This will probably prove most interesting to Alex who, unlike his father, has zero experience with my shoot-from-the-hip brand of improvisational performances. I'm thinking this is going to be one for the books when we get done. I'm very excited about this show--as always, I love trying something different.
