Listen to La Cricca di Umberto and enjoy...

(Umberto Pagnini's Band)

I met Umberto in the '70.
He was Chute Libre drummer,
I was a young photographer.




Having beaten his way through the Dolphin Orchestra and big bands
like Claude Bolling's, Martial Solal's, Michel Legrand's or funky
Captain Mercier's, La Cricca di Umberto is his own current group.

Sax Tenor, Laurent Meyer
Fender Rhodes, Alfio Origlio
Bass, Marc Bertaux
Guit, Jimmi Drouillard
Drums, Umberto Pagnini.



Brasiliana
from last Umberto's CD Donne Latine
smells good Brazil...

Le Mur Oberkampf, last 2 posters...

Happily there is Le Mur/My Space...
because I didn't pass by for more than a month.















Here is the last one,
featured by S.M. & J.F. on December 13th...















but who performed the November 15th Mur ?
I don't know, so I asked My Space...

Griset, a Japanese Artist's Nest !

Japanese dancer Eita Hasegawa (center), lives in Griset when in Paris,
(as a makeup artist)...

And...
































... painter Megumi Terao, coming from a japanese advertising school,
lives in Paris since 2001. Here some work from her Gallery.
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ANY FANS ? . . .

Funky Saturday at L'Antirouille !

The Funky Saturday concept was launched
by DJ Pharoah in Nantes, France, in 1998.

Gathering the best funk DJ he could find in France to shake

the dancefloor has always been the main target since the
beginning.

After two evening parties at Les Coulisses Club in Montmartre,
Funky Saturday moves to Paris Oberkampf area
at...


L'Antirouille - 5, rue Moret - Paris XI
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on Saturday, December 13th
as well as each 2nd Saturday of the month,
under the leadership of DJ Moar,
TradVibe label.

Blogger Followers Widget is cool...

Seeing that I have : I thought I can try and see if by chance I can have
more... so I've put the new Blogger Followers widget just under the blog's header... see it ?

Now what is Following ?

"The Followers widget is a great tool to help you grow your blog's audience.
Readers often visit a blog and enjoy it but fail to return. With the followers
widget you can get all readers to return and become a fan".
You can then enter your desired title for your Following widget. Once you
have chosen a title, click the orange SAVE button. You have now added the Following widget
to your blog. Readers can now go your blog and become a follower !

Once your readers become followers of your blog, their profile picture will be displayed in your
Following widget. A running count of your followers will be displayed next to the blog name
on your dashboard.
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(more details with googler John Panzler)