Drumming in Griffith Park
It's June 22, 2008 - it has been as hot as a miner’s oven here in Southern California. I was out at the woodshed up in Griffith Park yesterday. Hot, but it was beautiful. I had a good time, did some good playing, some good sheding, drank lots of water, and poured tons of water over my head to cool down after each 1 hour (or more) solo drumming session. The beauty of playing outdoors is something that I simply cannot get enough of. Mother Nature, the wildlife, the wilderness, the serenity - these elements combined with the freedom to play as long and as loud or soft as you may desire is a perfect setting for total creativity, experimentation, and expression. I might also add that it is a nice place to just kick back, relax, read or meditate. I visit this area of Griffith Park weekly (when the weather and my schedule permit), and have done so for the past 8 years. I hope and pray that my sunrise to sunset visits at Griffith Park will continue for years to come.
I went to Philadelphia, PA a couple of weeks ago to do a New Birth gig, and we had a very good time. We (New Birth) have another gig coming up next month at the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Washington DC, and I look forward to the gig.
Keep Jazz alive, and have a happy summer.
Peace,
Robin Russell
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Jaijai, what a wonderful mission you've undertaken to create such a place for artistic minds to meet and share their hearts. A place to renew faded determinations, and revive lessened momentums. A place to display our wares and reconfirm to one another that we actually are on the right track.
I commend you, Jaijai, for caring so much that you created this castle of the heart for all of us. I want to share my praise for all of the new friends as well as old friends that I've met and will meet here in our castle. Here we can garnish the where-with-all, the strength, the conviction, and the selflessness through our symbiosis, to share our gift to the world with an unbiased agenda.
My mentor, Daisaku Ikeda says of art: "A beautiful flower delights and refreshes the hearts of all people equally, no matter what soil it grows in. That is the power of beauty. The same is true of great art. It is this spirit that the German poet Heinrich Heine sang of when he wrote that once the peapod bursts open, the sugar peas inside are for everyone to enjoy."
Let's be audacious, my friends!
Buster Williams
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