At Sea

March 7-8
At Sea

Nothing too exciting these past couple days, just sea days. We did have two decent entertainers though, a pianist who had some nice charts, and a singer that did a lot of old jazz standards. They both had nice shows to play, so that’s always a welcome change from the usual brainless charts we’re given.
The singer, Gregg, was really happy with my sax playing and couldn’t say enough about my tone and my solo in general. I was feeling pretty good about all that, till I kind of started to figure out that he was complimenting me just slightly too aggressively, meaning he didn’t just like my playing, but liked me…yeah – wasn’t feeling so good any more. He ended up going to our big band set that night and sang a few tunes with us, which was cool, till he again started complimenting me a little too much and looking over a little too often. Luckily, he left the ship the next day, so after a night of fighting off awkward advances, I can now sleep better knowing he’s no longer in this country. (Who remembers the December 5th story from back in 2007? I don’t know how these situations seem to find me…don’t jump to any conclusions – ha)
And I’ll just leave it at that – thanks!