Next suggested lodging 'best bet' is the JazzTrax Festival Official Headquarters. Robin Hood Resort, directly across the street from the festival venue. Nottingham's at Robin Hood has the Festival After Parties, upstairs in Friar Tuck's Tavern.  Details on the Robin Hood Resort Hotel & Ticket Package can be found as well on the Big Bear Festival Page at JazzTrax.com.

Staying at either of these Host Hotels guarantees no drinking and driving. They are literally RIGHT THERE at the JazzTrax Festival. Both are in the Village of Big Bear Lake. Simply walk to everything!

As for October on Catalina Island you can view some of the Line-Up Posted right now on-line at JazzTrax.com.   we're holding off for the Big Announcement until next week's e-mail, so we can finish confirming a couple of the BIGGEST Headliners and to let Big Bear have it's week. Almost all of October's major island headliners are confirmed. So go ahead and peak at the Catalina page at jazztrax.com.

Even though I would have been fine if my home state Colts had won the SuperBowl, how can you get past that priceless moment post game with Drew Brees holding his one year old son in the middle of the field in Miami with tears welling up in his eyes. The MVP of the Super Bowl finding it hard to believe what just happened and sharing it with his infant son, immediately. So bring on the Winter Games in my favorite Ski Place on Earth... Whistler! And bring on a lifelong Smooth Jazz SKIER to be our JazzTrax Guest as the Olympics begin, on the JazzTrax Radio Show just published on-line which airs across America this weekend. Swiss keyboardist Alex Bugnon will tell how he's addicted to watching World Cup Downhill Skiing on TV. He'll tell how he grew up in a boarding school, just up the Mountain in the Alps above Montreaux simply because his parents had bought the school and were running it in his youth. With the Swiss ski slopes almost staring at him across the street. Oh, and he brings to the JazzTrax Studio his brand new 2010 'Going Home' CD. Great stories of how he wound up living up the Hudson River area in New York, and maintains the Steinway piano in his local Hudson Valley Episcopal Church so he can practice on it...alone in the sanctuary whenever he wants. These are great new songs to celebrate Valentines Weekend with. But if you just have to have some saxophone with your attempts at romance, it's the 1986 Kenny G break-through CD 'Duotones' from the JazzTrax Archives, 24 years back in time including 'Songbird' and 'Slip of the Tongue'.

Listen right now and remember, listening on-line, if you like a song, you can move the show backwards and listen to the song as many times as you'd like! Start listening and start thinking summertime mountain air watching the stars of Smooth Jazz on top of Big Bear Lake in June.