Friends, life is good. We had a fantastic gig last weekend up at Soka. Keezer and I drove up together and talked about music and then veered off into the downsides of fructose as a sweetener. What do you know about that? Also, there’s a floating world of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean that won’t degrade and I’m thinking we’ve got to limit how plastic flows in and out of our lives. So this is how jazz musos spend their idle drive time? Next, we’re sitting in the green room, waiting to go on, thinking we need a proper band name. We’ve been using the “Geoffrey Keezer / Peter Sprague Quartet” as our launch point but it’s a bit wordy. So to fit the moment, our name at least for that last show was, “The Fructose Plastic Ono Orchestra." I don’t think it’ll stick but it was a fun moment to spin through.

Tomorrow night we’re pulling the deets together for a cool hit at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. Our angle is putting our jazz and Brazilian spin onto the magic songs of Stevie Wonder. It’s a natural fit ‘cuz Stevie is all about groove mixed in with jazz harmonic color. Come and hang with us and dig on Rebecca’s version of Creepin’ among many other cool Leonard moments.