WJJ News - what does jazz and rowing have in common?

[Westchester Jazz Jam]

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In This Newsletter
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** This Week
** Oops
** Quote of the Week

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This Week
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This week’s house band will feature Gerry Fitzgerald on drums &
cymbals, Norm Lotz on bass, & Dennis Winge on guitar.

Westchester Jazz Jam
Every Thursday Night
8 to 11 p.m.
www.westchesterjazzjam.com

Ruben’s Mexican Cafe
5 North Division St.
Peekskill, NY 10566
(914) 739-4330
http://www.rubensmexicancafe.com/

$5 raffle ticket is price of admission
Ruben’s will typically raffle off a meal, bottle of wine, etc.

directions are at the Jam’s website

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Oops
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Last week's story about Tommy Hilfiger was untrue. Sorry for any
inconvenience. It just goes to show one should check one’s sources no
matter how reputable one thinks they are.

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Quote of the Week
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What does jazz have in common with rowing? find out in this excerpt
of:

Mind Over Water

by world-class rower Craig Lambert

Rowers have a word for this frictionless state: 'swing.' Recall the
pure joy of riding on a backyard swing, the easy cycle of motion, the
momentum coming from the swing itself. Swing carries us; we cannot
force it. We pump our legs to drive us higher but gravity does most
of the work. We are not so much swinging as being swung. The boat
swings you. The shell wants to move fast. Speed sings in its lines
in nature. Our job is simply to work with the shell to stop holding
it back with our thrashing struggles to go faster. Trying too hard
sabotages boat speed. Trying becomes striving and striving undoes
itself. Social climbers strive to be aristocrats, but their efforts
prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive. They have
already arrived. Swing is this state of arrival.