Last night's job at the Gwinnett Center was interesting alright. The band was OK, well I really liked the horn players and one of the new singers, but the halftime entertainment was... well different. This was an employee holiday party for a big car dealer in the Atlanta area and Lou, the owner of the dealership, flew in a troupe of exotic dancers on his private Lear jet. I mean that's OK and everything, but all the employees had their wives or girlfriends with them, and it was clearly uncomfortable for most of them to have these nearly naked professional exotic dancers getting up close and personal. Maybe I'm just being old fashioned, but do that at a Las Vegas convention not a company Christmas party for goodness sake. Oh well, whatever!
This afternoon I met Mack and a local sax player in Murphy NC for a jazzy Christmas concert. The sax player is a ex-pro who recently retired to the Murphy area, and this dude can play! There is a thriving community of jazz fans in this mountain resort area and they have invited Mack and I to come and perform several times this past year. They're really nice folks that appreciate good live music, occasionally bringing in well-known jazz artist and providing a quality concert atmosphere. This job was far more rewarding than the standard party/dance crap we had to play last night for car salesmen, but there were no dancing girls.
Posted by dancoy at December 12, 2004 11:43 PM