Scott’s Themes: Art, Music, Performance, Writing

Kaktus Brewing Company Blues Jam-Video Girls Night Out

Feb 18, 2019

Girls like to sing the blues too. https://youtu.be/JXypIj0jzoM

Kaktus Kat All Stars- Videos Blues Jam at the Kaktus Brewing Company- Bernalillo

Feb 18, 2019

Larry preaches on the Hammond organ. https://youtu.be/kexHvK5hNKI

Kaktus Brewing Company Jam – Video Glenn Kostur

Feb 18, 2019

The last skeleton I ran into was Freddie at an Albuquerque Starbucks, on Halloween. Before that, I shared a bench with a man of bones in Tulum, Mexico and listened to him sing his blues. There were glorious skeletons painted on a wall in Cuenca, Ecuador overlooking...

Kaktus Brewing Company Blues Jam 2/17/19, Bernalillo, New Mexico

Feb 18, 2019

Bernalillo is a little rural town thirty minutes north of Albuquerque. The town has some dirt roads, manufactured homes in disrepair, livestock grazing in back yards, Obama signs in front yards.The Rio Grande River and Bosque, a cottonwood forest, runs through town on...

Lomas Street Jazz Band-Video Celtic Brewing Company, Albuquerque

Feb 18, 2019

Rebekah plays clarinet and sings. Dan handles tenor sax. Dave plays bass. Louise is on piano. Andy plays drums and Jim plays guitar. It is Saturday afternoon after three. This gig is at the Celtic Brewery, across the street from the New Mexico Jazz Workshop where...

Nosotros-Videos Chadd James on Flute

Feb 17, 2019

Teaching and playing are different animals. Most musicians play and teach music but it is teaching that pays their bills. There are lots of filters and bends in pipes that keep a teacher's message from reaching his students gas tank. If Chadd could just run a...

Nosotros – Video " We"

Feb 17, 2019

Valentine's Day at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, in Albuquerque, features " Nosotros. " The music menu is hot, hot and hotter. The band belts out salsas, sambas, and, especially popular in New Mexico, cumbias. Us " Sax Rats" have come down this evening to listen...

Nosotros Valentines Day, 2019

Feb 16, 2019

If you want to know what people are looking for, count the cars in the parking lot. Tonight, the parking lot is full. The dance floor is also full,dancers barely having enough room to stand, The band is hitting their spots, ladies are dressed to kill, the...

3 On A Match-Video Albuquerque Sunport

Feb 7, 2019

These musicians remind me of cabarets in Berlin, London, Paris, after World War 2, without the smoke, SS Officers and floozies. A first response to new music is to discount or find faults with it because it is new, and unfamiliar. Another...

Sax Rats Play More- Video Old Town Holiday Stroll/ Albuquerque/Christmas 2018

Feb 6, 2019

Enjoy the music. https://youtu.be/pC6RMspJHho https://youtu.be/kJdWINfurs8 https://youtu.be/ET1S4ag_w1Y

Sax Rats- Video Holiday Stroll, Old Town, Albuquerque, 2018

Feb 6, 2019

People come to the Old Town Plaza for the annual Christmas Stroll, saunter down lumanaria lined sidewalks and blocked off streets, shop and eat, enjoy friends and family, stand under Christmas mistletoe, lick candy canes, and listen to street musicians.. If they like...

Sax Rats in Old Town Holiday Stroll -2018

Feb 5, 2019

Sax Rats is a saxophone quartet - two alto saxes, a tenor sax, and a baritone sax. It is cold this evening as we load Dan's van, drive down, set up, begin our first set at the Holiday Stroll in Old Town, Albuquerque, with "Jingle Bells." There is, we agree, a...