Adventures with Ayah 1 - I Reminisce

It all started on a rainy Thursday in August of 2008. I was playing with the Thompson Egbo Egbo trio at the Rosedale Golf Club when he reminded me that “Ayah needs a band at the Gladstone and I said we’ll help her out tonight.” I had said sure on the condition that I was out at 11pm. I used to have a job where I started at 5:30am so sleep was important.

This was an event for a charity but because we went from one gig right to the other, I don’t remember the specifics of this one. We arrived, parked at the Price Chopper, and set up. My playing instructions were “You’re playing an upright. It’s going to sound cool regardless so just play loops and follow me.”

The event started late so I have to give Ayah a ton of credit for still managing to get me out of there by 11:15. We sounded great and played “re-mixed” tunes from Ayah’s “Problem Woman” mixtape which can be downloaded for FREE at her website (http://www.ayahmusic.com/ and click on music). Little did I know that this would be the first of some good times I would have playing for her.