Kakki-
Great story and what great pics!
I love the one of Landau and is that Abe with his back to the camera? You
are so lucky to live in LA where SO many JMDl'ers wind up and wow they
always eem to graviate towards the mecca on Grand. Hope you are having fun.
I am in BET hell right now and hope to be able to keep up with you guys.
Love
Paz
NP-Beth Patterson Live from the french quarter via my friend Laurel's cell
phone.
P.S. Great NEWS! I got Jack a job on the BET crew as my assistant. We start
recording the record a week from tomorrow.
on 7/1/01 10:25 PM, Kakki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This was the week for JMDL'er visits to LA! Chris Coccaro (our "C Karma")
> is in from NYC this week shooting a commercial and surprised me with a
> email. We got together last night and ran around the town having a good old
> "Joni" time. Les told me of the resturant in Venice where a lone Joni
> painting hangs so we had a wonderful dinner there and I got up the nerve to
> be gauche enough to snap a photo ;-) (with permission). The abstract
> painting is very pretty and has a quality of changing hues and textures as
> you move around it. We then raced off to The Baked Potato in North
> Hollywood where Clark, thankfully, was holding some space for us at the bar
> and composing a new song. Joni band veterans and legends Vinnie Colaiuta
> (WTRF, DED & NRH) and Michael Landau (WTRF, DED, Chalkmark & TI) were
> playing with Abe Laboriel, Sr. and Greg Mathieson were playing together,
> billed as the "Dyno-Four." Oh and were they ever! I was wishing Lahm or
> Fred Simon could have been there to adequately describe what we were
> hearing. They seemed to go through one long continuous riff of every style
> of West Coast jazz of the past 30 years. They were tremendously energetic
> and absolutely stunning. The crowd went wild after every performance. The
> guys were so into it and seemed so happy to be playing together - they would
> cheer, hug and high-five each other after almost every song. They all seem
> like such great people. Afterward, Chris, Clark and I hung outside on the
> sidewalk and talked about all kinds of things for over an hour and then
> Chris and I headed back down to Hollywood and cruised along Sunset blasting
> and singing DJRD. Chris also told us many great stories about a wonderful
> conversation with Joni's dad and his time at the Mendel exhibit in Saskatoon
> a year ago today. It was such a happy surprise to meet Chris, whose posts I
> always enjoy and I'm so glad he looked us up.
>
> I've added some photos of the LA JMDL'ers get-togethers with Gary Zack and
> Chris (and the Joni painting ;-) at the link below. Kakki NP: Covers
> Vol. 19 - Thanks Bob!
>
> http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=1481388&a=13272687
>
> If you use AOL, use this link to see the photos.
> <a href="http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumList?u=1481388&a=13272687";>
> Click here</a>
