Posts Tagged “outside the box”

When I’m not working at my “day job” running a marketing/advertising/design agency, I’m a professional musician. Right now, I’m trying to put a band together here in Amarillo to play in restaurants, nightclubs, and private parties. Now nobody’s gonna confuse Amarillo with, say, Dallas or Austin, as far as a music scene goes. Most of what you hear up here in the Panhandle, frankly leans toward the country music side of things. I want to create a jazz group – I’ll play vibes and sing, with a piano, bass and drums. A group like that could cover a lot of material – traditional jazz, Latin, standards, pop tunes – you name it. We could play everything from Nat ‘King’ Cole and Diana Krall to Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock to Harry Connick Jr. and Micheal Bublé. Read the rest of this entry »