by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 28, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
A former regular reader of this blog got in touch recently and reminded me that I used to write about jazz a bit. Which reminded me I’d been remiss in not describing the wonderful Dave Holland Sextet gig I attended at Birdland in midtown a few short weeks ago. I...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 1, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Last weekend a friend’s teenage daughter went to an underage concert in Queens with some friends. While at the concert, the unworldly young lady draped her jacket over her backpack – containing her wallet, keys, MetroCard and mobile phone – and left...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 27, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
What a time to be in the US. The panic on Wall Street is trickling rather than flooding down to “Main Street”, as the Presidential candidates said so frequently in last night’s first debate. (The Australian tabloid term “Struggle Street”...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 22, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
It’s only been six months since last I was in my old neighborhood of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, but since moving back into my glorified storage unit, ahem, small bedroom in a friend’s apartment, I’ve been quite astonished at the multiple signs of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 7, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
While it’s always pretty terrific to touch down at JFK, the long-haul flight comes at a reasonable cost to one’s equilibrium. The anxiety-inducing minutes at the immigration desk straight off the plane at Los Angeles International Airport, the mind-numbing...
by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 21, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
How much fun was it to see the Modfather himself, the ageless Paul Weller, at the Enmore Theatre on Wednesday night? I haven’t jumped around in my chair so much since – well, since a gig at the Village Vanguard in February, and then the one at Sweet Rhythm...