Played a few tunes with the Stray Kats big band in HK last night ("Sunny Side of the Street", "Fever", "Alright, Ok, You Win.") as well as did some dancing. There was another guest with that band that night, a singer named Hetty from Melbourne who joined in the same three tunes that I did. She's got a nice vintage voice. Check her out at www.hettykate.com.

Today just had a good "lie in" messing with the new computer and doing some work on my Berklee assignments. Tomorrow I gotta find a place to rent a piano for a while, but there are a lot of places around the place that I'm staying that look like they have pianos for rent so I'll check them out then. Yesterday I was going to do it for a while, but they were all closed for the holidays. Hope that isn't the case tomorrow.

First stop: Hong Kong

I just got the new computer that is going to be the base for this blog about my travels around the world. Fortunately, my first stop is Hong Kong, the best place in the world to purchase electronics. So I got myself a nice little 14" laptop that still has a bit of juice, but mostly is portable (2.4kg).

Yesterday was the first full day of my adventure, and the 3rd anniversary of the Hong Kong Swing community, of which I have been a satelite part of since very early on. I taught some dance workshops in the afternoon, then after a bit of a cleanup went to the LanKwaiFang Lindy pub crawl. Free beer and dancing in the street with the HKSwings! crew. Then we moved to a restaurant/bar in Wanchai for dinner and more dancing, as well as performances scattered throughout the evening (including myself jamming on sax with the recorded music for a while).

Tonight is the Stray Kats big band performing at Grappa's. I'm going to bring my horn along and see if I can sit in.