Swingin’ with Gillespie at Mezzrow to Rockin’ with Rad Jet on Governors Island

To be completely honest, my biggest disappointment to our exciting entrée on Saturday August 17 for Rad Jet’s (my band) inaugural NYC performance at House Fest – Governors Island’s largest annual outdoor festival – was I had planned the perfect perfunctory introductory comment for our precocious drummer: “On drums, here you go! Here’s someone who wants you to know, ‘No, I’m not related to that guy with the big puffy cheeks!’”