I have barely started rolling out my spring outdoors season but I now know that the last show of the year will be under the oak at Johnson Park with Karl Evangelista guitar and Alexander Hawkins quartet on Monday, October 14 which is both Columbus Day and Indigenous People’s Day. 6 pm or about 90 minutes before sunset. Rain cancels. Johnson Park is the only place I do shows that the city of Palo Alto does not offer permits, so I just make sure my Downtown North neighbors know about the show, plus I get there at sunrise to put out my gear and sandwich board. Its first-come first-serve.

My next show is with DJ Sep at Lytton Plaza on Saturday, May 4 at 3 pm, after Duffy and I walk the May Fete parade. There is still a slim chance that my Cochiti Camero will magically pop up at Heritage Park that day, between the parade and DJ Sep’s set. Also, I will be doing something at the park as she spins. A dj is slightly different than a band, I think in that the audience does slightly less watching — Iv’e never done a pure dj set, as Earthwise Productions.

Also: May 10, Jim Campilongo; May 24 Mark Lettieri; May 30, Nels Cline; June 2: Eddie 9V with Jimmy Dewrance; that’s about five guitar heroes in a row, or within a month. Five events in a month, or four in May and one in June, within 30 days.

And1: Stephanie Chou, who is a math and music double major from Barnard and Columbia, and recorded a song about Paul J. Cohen/continuum hypothesis/infinity for my Lions With Wings label, will likely appear, at Palo Alto Art Center, in November; she said she’s firm with hits at San Jose Jazz and SF Jazz Joe Henderson Room. We will rename the Palo Alto Art Center the David Hilbert Room in her honor or are we being irrational? 

Andand: I wrote to Kris Davis, who will be at Stanford Jazz this summer but have never met, about playing Paul Cohen’s piano in the math building while she is out here; I thought of it because an act on her label has a math-related or math-inspired title.