Expectancies

I missed Jaco playing our local jazz cub after a Weather Report gig in Adelaide and, I think it was Wayne Shorter doing the same in Sydney.  Anyway it was a long shot that Victor Wooten would drop in to the jam session at Smiths but I visited at the last minute with unlikely anticipation.  It was the first gig of his tour so maybe he was in town, wondering about the locals.  He didn't turn up but I got a play.  Wayne and Gavin and Mitch were there but I missed playing with any of them but Peter was hosting and he had a fascinating e-bass I could borrow.  Ibanez (EHB1506MS?) fanned frets, 6-string, fabulous tone and deliriously confusing to play.  I haven't played 6-string for yonks, very little recent e-bass, and never fanned frets, but when you got it right, the tone was to die for through a Fender amp with tone set flat.  Thanks, Peter, local doyen of intriguing instruments.  And I heard more jazz news but more on that later.  As for Victor Wooten, he didn't make this post but he will make no. 3,101.

This is CJBlog post no. 3,100