Santa got me an early Xmas present with a 50 mile range electric bike. Nice to be able to get around a lot more (health issues have made regular bicycling challenging), although it’s sitting unused while we go through this cold snap (temps in the 20’s here in sunny Florida!🥶😱).

I made use of the Black Friday sales to load my iPad up with the SWAM saxes and strings, which are absolutely amazing, and I’m currently researching using CME’s wireless Bluetooth MIDI options so I can wander around the venue with my old KX5 keytar (which has a breath controller input) and do the roving sax player bit!

I have the SWAM stuff working well with the BK9, using expression instead of breath controller, and it’s an amazing way to while away the hours going through my jazz fakebooks and Christmas books, playing the chords the first go round on piano while the chord sequencer records the changes, then blowing as many choruses as I can on the sax. Did that a couple of days ago, suddenly realized I had been at it for 5 hours without even realizing it! 😍

Santa knows what I like..!

I wish all of you the joy of the Christmas and holiday season, and hope Santa brings you something to enhance your love of music! 🎅🏻🎹🎄🎷🎻🎼