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Jeff Lofton at the Driskill Hotel Bar
I nominate Forrest Preece and Linda Ball as Best All-Round Downtown Residents.
You may recall that I posted about Jeff’s wife, Dean, earlier in the week. Soft-spoken, extravagantly dreadlocked Jeff’s a phenomenal jazz trumpeter, playing with a bassist and a drummer at the Driskill. Keeping the tone soft and the song selections drawn from the ballad repertoire, the trio matched the room optimally.
I watched the faces of the bar and hotel guests, astonished to find such a snazzy act in what essentially operates as an over-decorated hallway for the establishment. As Preece and Ball kept saying, “In New York, you’d be paying a stiff cover for this!”
You bet.
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By Forrest Preece
May 31, 2009 1:51 PM | Link to this
Thanks for the nice words, Michael. This coming Tuesday marks our one-year anniversary of living downtown. This has been a lifestyle change that Linda and I have fully embraced. When I retired in May 2005, we knew that we had seen the end of an era in our lives--and we started feeling the need for a change. We were driving down MoPac to downtown entertainment and meetings all the time. What's more, the constant maintenance demands of our large house on a 2/3 acre+ lot -- yeah, that was a monkey we were looking to get off of our backs. Now it seems like there is a constant positive energy in our surroundings and a sense of adventure that we didn't have before.