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Stewart,

Can you tell that I don't feel much like working today? Anyway, you 
have an incredibly musical family. I couldn't even pretend to follow 
Coltrane until I was in my twenties (when I could start pretending 
with authority, as well as palpitate to Elvin Jones), and I must 
confess that Vanessa Carlton and Nate Morton are unfamiliar to me, 
but based on your family's credentials, they seem well worth finding 
out about.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> --- "liberatusvirus" wrote:
> > Isn't it weird to think that your daughter probably regards
> > the era as ancient history? I'm always taken aback by "kids"
> > who don't have a sense of the Beatles or other musicians of
> > the time.
> 
> And then they go and surprise you. My daughters are 17, 15 and 12 
> and all musicians. The middle daughter is a fine singer and 
pianist 
> and was recently rewarded for a performance of Britten's Abraham 
and 
> Isaac with music shop coupons. She returned with a book of Sinatra 
> classics. When she was about 10, I once came down to find her at 
the 
> computer doing some school work, with headphones on. Turned out 
she 
> was listening to Coltrane. And now we perform Vanessa Carlton 
stuff 
> together (number 1 daughter plays bass too).
> 
> (Drags thread back vaguely on topic) ... saw Nate Morton playing 
> with VC in London recently. Never seen him before, but he was 
> *excellent* - fantastic work rate, great showman, but with that 
> difficult to pin down quality of apparently having plenty of time 
to 
> spare. Last but not least, he looked like he was having a great 
time.
> 
> Er. And he occasionally uses trigger pads. There, on topic!
> 
> Stewart