Small Day Tomorrow

(Music: Bob Dorough | Lyrics: Fram Landsman )

Chris Jeffries, Piano

I moved to L.A. from Seattle in 1998 to pursue a career on screen and found myself instead checking my brother into rehab and realizing that there were almost no fat people on television. I did, however, fall in love with some wonderfully L.A. institutions, including Harry Shearer’s radio show Le Show. Shearer did social/political comedy routines and played eclectic music in between.

That is where I got turned on to Bob Dorough, the bebop vocalist, composer, and pianist—he worked with everyone from Blossom Dearie to Miles Davis and wrote and directed Schoolhouse Rock.

When I moved back to Seattle, I wrote and performed a solo show, Go There, which was about all the places I went in search of my life. I sang this song as a wink and a nod to my very empty calendar as others went ahead with “all those big wheels, with all their big deals.”