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There’s an edge tonight. Some are on edge; some edgy. Everyone wants to
be someplace, but a map and GPS can’t find someplace. Three show up at the jazz
club who are the exception. They want to be here. The jazz club is the someplace
they want to be. The middle-aged couple have brought her dad here to celebrate
his 84th birthday. A good-looking white-hair gentleman….he enjoys
the music. A trio of women enter all wary and on edge. They calm down at the
bar. One of them keeps going outside, but not to smoke or chat on her cell. I
wonder… Another of the trio steps up to me and asks in a demanding tone if a
little man has entered the club. Not that I recall is what I say. She grimaces
and returns to her stool at the bar. Moments later, a little man presents
himself at the door. He is short, but too tall to be considered a little person
or a race jockey. Yet, he’s too short to be any good at table tennis or waxing
a SUV. Grimace lady rushes to me waving a five—the little man lucks out. Throughout
the night, he stands behind the tables on the floor thoroughly enjoying the
music. A highlight for both of us is the delicately-executed solo during the
quintet’s version of Freddie Hubbard’s “Little Sunflower.” The saxman sounds
like he’s crocheting a lacy brocade doily for grandma’s mahogany side table. A
refreshing, unexpected, and tasteful treatment from a tenor and quintet that
prides itself in its hard-driving sound.
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