It is a
delightful jazz guitar quartet night—electric guitar, upright, sax, and drums.
What I love about top-flight musicians is that a bunch that have never played
together, when tossed together, can play together. The guitar leader has three
new musicians that he’s never had here before (to be fair, he may play with
them all the time and it may just be me that’s never seen them all play together).
The tenor / alto man is noteworthy and the young kid on bass (who is actually
underage) is daddio cool. The bass player has a velvet sound, which matches the
music they’re playing. Several newbies have come tonight to the jazz club. A
couple of women from a distant “safe” suburb made a special trip into the big
city to hear jazz. A young lone wolf sat most of the night with a goofy grin of
jazz joy on his face. “You belong here,” I say to him. “You know it, brother.”
On the cusp of closing, a pair of women came in. The vivacious brunette in the
pair functions as the fun fairy of friendship warming everyone with her smile.
She has California confidence and makes sure to tell everyone that she’s
visiting from California. If we sold BEST FRIENDS necklaces at the club, there
would be a lot of us wearing half-heart necklaces with ST / ENDS engraved on
them.
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