Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen "Jazz from Paris"

Joyeux Noël de Paris ...

 

Chers Amis, 

This year I am adding to my message from 2017. Mostly because it says what is important to us. I hope that you will forgive my lack of originality.  

Leslie and I have…

Bonjour de Paris ...
Chers Amis,

We are happy to be home in Paris after doing six days on the road. We performed as a quartet, trio and duo which kept things fresh every night. While the audiences were great …

Bonjour de Paris ...
Chers Amis,

October was a good month.  We enjoyed a bit of an Indian summer which happened to coincide with the time that one of my sisters chose to visit Paris for the first time. Leslie …

Bonjour de Paris ...
Chers Amis,

We have been enjoying a few weeks in our own home getting back into a routine of gigs in town and the start of my fall classes at the Paris College of Music. I …

Bonjour de Paris ...

Chers Amis,

Planes, trains and automobiles is the theme for this newsletter. We arrived in La Baule by train late Saturday night. Earlier that day we spent four hours traveling from Annecy to Paris (by train)…

Bonjour de Paris ...

Chers Amis,

After working away from Paris for much of July we are back in town for about a week before we head out again. It has been nice to be in our own home and…

Bonjour de Paris ...

Chers Amis,

Six years ago today, July 2, 2012, we arrived in Paris with two suitcases and no clue as to what we had gotten ourselves into. Our apartment was a short-term rental (two months). It…

Bonjour de Paris ...

Chers Amis,

Friday night Marc Ghoukassian from Bayside Restaurant in Newport Beach was at our gig in Paris with a group of his friends. When we lived in California Leslie and I worked for him at…

 

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Chers Amis,

Breakfast in Los Angeles, lunch in London, dinner in Paris, we have made the journey back to Europe. Thank goodness for those restaurants because the food that was served during the flight was barely recognizable…

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Chers Amis,

Tonight's plan was to spend the evening packing and getting everything ready for our early AM flight to L.A. But (there is almost always a but) we received an offer to go hear Kurt…

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Chers Amis,

This is going to be a shorter than normal post. We are going a mile a minute here. Last spring I was offered an opportunity to teach a jazz history class at the Paris…

Bonjour de Paris ...

Chers Amis,

Leslie and I hope that you all enjoyed the holidays and that 2018 is starting well for all of you. Over Christmas we enjoyed a few days off in Bordeaux starting with the new…