ANYONE LIVE NEAR CLEARWATER?

[randissimo]

Anyone living in Florida or planning a trip there this particular week in October?

We play on saturday... Here's the schedule....

The Official Lineup for the 2003 Clearwater Jazz Holiday

Thursday, October 16

6:45 p.m. - 8 p.m. Eric Darius

8:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. Kim Waters, and Chuck Loeb with Jeff Kashiwa

Friday, October 17

6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Michael Ross Quartet

8:00 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. Largo featuring Gast Waltzing

9:45 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Paquito D'Rivera's "Brazilian Dreams" featuring New York Voices

Saturday, October 18

Noon - 1:15 p.m. On Que Players

1:45 p.m. - 3 p.m. Jimmy Bruno

3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Matthias Lupri

5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Organissimo

7 p.m. - 8:15 p.m. Jon Cleary

9 p.m. - 10:30 p.m Lizz Wright

Sunday, October 19

1 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Ruth Eckerd Hall / Clearwater Jazz Holiday Youth Band

2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Kristin Lomholt

4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Denny Jiosa

6 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. David Hazeltine featuring Eric Alexander

8 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. Herbie Hancock Trio

[Dan Gould]

I keep planning to check their website to see who else gets to share the bill with Organissimo ... I'd say I will definitely plan on being there Saturday and Sunday, I'd love to catch Eric Alexander with David Hazeltine.

And I've even got my "uniform" all picked out, guys-the former Gene Harris Fanatic will be known to you when you see the guy wearing the Gene Harris Jazz Festival t-shirt I recently won on Ebay!

Anyone else in south Florida interested in joining me?

[JohnT]

I live in Clearwater and was really looking forward to seeing Organissimo on Saturday night (especially since I'm originally from the Detroit area (been in Florida 5 years) and it's nice to see a a band from my home State featured at the Jazz Holiday. The Jazz Holiday in Clearwater is a fantastic setting for jazz -- when the sun sets behind those palms next to the gulf and the music is going -- it's fabulous!!!

But, alas, I also have a gig that night that starts at 7:00 (I'm an upright bass player in a Jazz Quintet) and I'm not sure if I can make it from Coachman Park and to my gig in time. I can't make Friday night either because of the gig but I plan on going on Sunday to catch Herbie Hancock and others!!