Juan Alvarez, Michael Babiarz, Hal Davis
We launched Tocando back around the beginning of the year,… and it’s been a blast! We’ve been performing about once a week — usually substituting in restaurants around Naples when a regular band needs a night off.
To learn more, check out the “Tocando” page, or look under “Calendar” to see where we’re performing next.
Julia just send me this link to a New York Times article about how music works. The author says, “what really communicates emotion may not be melody or rhythm, but moments when musicians make subtle changes to those musical patterns…” Contributors to the article include Paul Simon, Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, and Roseanne Cash in addition to a bunch of academics. Check it out!
Spring Performance Schedule OK, here’s something new and different… in May and June Howard White and I will be performing as a duo every Thursday night at the Quarter Bistro from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. The full HiDef quartet is breaking into some new territory: come and hear us at the Main Street Martini Bar in Brighton on Saturday May 21. For more details on these and other dates, please click on “What’s Up (gigs)”
It’s been a blast sitting in with Mike Blasucci and his band on Monday nights down at Fred’s Diner. Mike knows a million songs. I’m learning a lot from him. C’mon down!
To kick off this new year we’re leaking a preview of a new band, Culvers Travel. We recorded a few tunes over the holidays. Here’s a traditional jig. Stay tuned! There’s more to come…
Thank you everyone who purchased the new HiDef CD. In the first 30 days we sold nearly a hundred CD’s that has resulted in more than a thousand dollars donated to Habitat for Humanity. Thank you!!!
There’s a new way to hear our music! Listen to WEMU. Linda Yohn has been playing us in the morning and Evelynn Hawkins on her program in the evening. ”Bungalow”, the title cut from our latest CD has been receiving most of the airplay. Thanks WEMU! (BTW, their programming has always been terrific, even before they started playing our new music. Check their award-winning jazz programming at http://www.wemu.org.)
Our new CD, “Measure Twice, Bungalow Once” is now available for sale at most popular online music stores. To find us on iTunes, search for the album title or for “HiDef”. Here are links to our music on Amazon and CDbaby. You should also be able to find us at Rhapsody, Napster, Verizon, and other places. (And if you have the opportunity, please, take a moment and write a review. Thank you!!!)
Nov 4 – CD release party at the Quarter Bistro
We’ll bring a carton full of our new CD, “Measure Twice, Bungalow Once”. You could take one home. (makes a good stocking stuffer?) Habitat for Humanity will be on hand to accept donations — all of the proceeds from CD sales are being donated to H4H.
The new CD is finally finished, mastered and shrink-wrapped!
Somehow, while laboring on this album, we started talking about it like we were building a house, you know, laying the foundation, etc. And though it might not really make sense, you can see how we arrived at the name, “Measure Twice, Bungalow Once”. And consistent with that theme, we’ve decided to donate the proceeds from CD sales to Habitat for Humanity.
Here are a couple songs from the CD. More samples can be found at Listen up >> HiDef Qtet
