The punk rock of jazz!

'A Cashless Society' got together last night for a reunion jam. It was a lot of fun. For those of you who haven't heard about 'A Cashless Society', we are me on bass, Anna-Kate Loughnan on sax and Jesse Kokoua on guitar.

We kind of formed earlier this year when Big Jess would bring his guitar in to Azucena (the cafe/gallery that I volunteered in which sadly closed down in August) on Saturday afternoons and play jazz for whoever happened to be around. I would join Big Jesse occasionally if I was rostered on to play bass at church the following Sunday and we could go over the song list then Anna-Kate would play her sax and that's it.

So, Anna-Kate had suggested having jams with Big Jess on Wednesday nights so I could practise my songs for Sunday and get a bit more confident in my playing because I was getting kinda stressed about it, the more stressed and nervous I got, the more mistakes I made, the more mistakes I made, the more stressed and nervous I got...

So we had dinner with the Kokouas, Jesse's famous curry, mmm mmm! And then jamming for a couple of hours.

Jesse was talking about us playing at the Queenstown Jazz festival next year. I don't know where I'll be next year but how cool would that be?! We're going to get together in a fortnight and talk about putting a song list together.