An impromptu jam with Sadao

Corbett | December 20, 2004 11:45 PM

Today was a pretty cool day.

I got a call from Sadao Watanabe's promoters a couple weeks ago to help them do some co-promotion interviews and stuff for Watanabe's concert in Taipei. So this morning I rode out to the airport, did the official "Here-are-some-flowers-welcome-to-Taiwan-photo-taking-opportunity," and had a joint interview in the van with Sadao back to Taipei with a reporter with orange hair who didn't seem to know much Sadao, jazz, or music in general.

In the evening, I invited the whole crew and the promoters over to the Living Room for dinner, and we opened a couple bottles of JD, got the red wine flowing, and the evening eventually turned into a nice jam session, crashing in on Jimmy & Tammy's set.

Sadao tried to play my horn but told me "Man, your reed is like toilet paper!" which is was, since it was an old piece of crap, but you make do...so eventually we all got busy on different instruments, and Sadao settled down on drums, and I played the horn, and the rest of the band joined in, and we pretty much pounded on whatever there was to pound on. Jimmy and Tammy were terrified since they weren't expecting these guys to sit in. It was a good time...

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