NEWS - February brings the annual Fresno festival. I will be there with Bob Schulz and, as always, I especially look forward to playing music with the great clarinet player, Kim Cusack. In March the Grand Dominion Jazz Band will play at the Seattle Traditional Jazz Society meeting, the first time in several years that an out of town band will have been brought in. I hope that is a good sign. I will be there as a supporter of old friends.

I started the year by rereading Knut Hamsun's novel Mysteries, maybe for the fourth time, one of my deep book friends. And I just finished a biography of Howard Zinn, one of America's great political historians. Music is slow around me right now, but there are a couple of new things on the calendar for March.