Upcoming Solo Performances

May 21 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 9PM
May 21 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 11PM
May 22 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 9PM
May 22 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 11PM
May 23 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 9PM
May 23 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 11PM
May 24 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 9PM
May 24 Milan, Italy – Blue Note: 11PM
May 26 Freiburg, Germany – Jazzhaus
May 27 Cologne, Germany – Kulturkirche
May 28 Hamburg, Germany – Small Musikhalle
May 29 Mainz, Germany – Frankfurter Hof
May 30 Munich, Germany – Postplalast
June 01 Rouyn-Noranda, Québec, Canada – Congress Center Concert Hall

Wednesday Morning, May 7th

I am sad to let you know that Dad passed away this morning at around five o’clock. I unfortunately missed him just by a few hours. They had checked on him around midnight and he was ok and in no pain, by the next round in the morning he had passed away in his sleep.

With dad in 1991?
In Santa Fe around 1991. Photo by Eric Swanson.Ottokar - 1
Winking – that photo always makes me smile.

His eyes were so blue.
One of my favorite pics of dad is in the “Opium”-CD booklet, but I can’t find that on my computer.

Tuesday, May 6th

Every year there comes a day in Spring when the trees in town suddenly look green. It may be that more leaves opened this morning or maybe that the leaves just unfurled a little more, but today was that day.

Brought my Negra1 and the Viscarra strat to Jon’s studio before going to breakfast with him. After breakfast I played some guitar on a 9+ minute remix of “This Spring Release 10,000 Butterfies” he decided to make. Lush and trippy… to be experienced in our ListeningLounge next month sometime.