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Baby on Board

Interviewing musicians for nearly two decades has thrown me plenty of curveballs: Tape recorders dying, artists who show up late or drunk (or both), phones that cut out, managers who insist you’ll only have five minutes to do the whole interview and so much more. Last Saturday, I threw a subject a curveball of my own. A scheduling snafu meant if I was going to interview jazz great John Pizzarelli up in Edmonds, Washington, I would have to bring my 10-week-old baby along for the ride. The show had to go on.

Pizzarelli was an understanding trooper – he’s a dad after all. The interview went on, no screaming till the very end. We’ll use the interview for a forthcoming podcast with the jazz great (Pizzarelli, not my son) and we have a great, full-length, baby-free article with the jazz great in Fretboard Journal #22 done by great scribe Rich Kienzle.

P.S. The kid shows up in just two photographs for evidence. Here’s one, check the lower right corner. Something for the little guy’s scrapbook.