Sometimes I just like to just go to a bar or club blasting loud rock through a crowd of people hanging around outside, talking and smoking dope. It doesn’t matter who is...
It has been quite a couple of weeks musically. First, the musical “A Funny Thing Happened…” wrapped up with two Broadway performances by Laura Medina, singing “Think of Me” from The Phantom...
Dum-da-dee-dee-dum-da-ptchu-ptchu-ptchu. That is about as close as I can get to the sounds of progressive jazz, ala’ Ana Pau Reyes as she delivered a stunning virtuoso performance of Mexican progressive jazz at...
Today is name change day. And day change day.
I have been writing this column on Friday nights for 5 years under the title of LA LA Land because I was based in...
A guitar player walked into my studio in Ajijic this afternoon to pitch a project for sponsorship by the Mexican newspaper I write for, the Semanario Laguna. Juan Casteñon, a world-class jazz...
The ceiling was the brick construction our area is famous for known as boveda, in which bricks are manually placed end to end in an arch over a room, seemingly supported by...
For an out-of-the-way small Mexican town, Ajijic has a pretty lively music community. A lot of musicians retired here after music careers in the States, Canada, and some Latin American and European...
It is Friday night in Ajijic, Mexico and I am sitting on my veranda with my laptop listening to a very good rock band play covers of Carlos Santana songs at a...
