jazz birdmad the smoke and the drinks and the well appointed clus and the seedy dives along the delta microphone stand saxophone piano a spotlight and a guitar dream breakdowns and slow burns time signatures and temptation the sultry and the frenetic 011111 ... unhinged i saw his little note held by the frame of the mirror "do it for tony" ok so he was a jazz professor, but he gave me an A+ once and he thought i could be great. do it for tony....grandma, dad. 011112 ... silentbob and we will call him jazz brad to differentiate him from other brads 011113 ... no reason i'm missing my favourite local quintet due to illness 080228 ... ever dumbening josh redman tonight, showing a new maturity. breathy, funky, ethereal, mindful, assured. 080229 ... no reason ooh, i saw the joshua redman trio last year at the vancouver jazz fest. they were one of my favourites. 080229 ... nr jazz jams are a place where i sometimes meet people that i can talk to for a good long time about cymbal quality. this is a necessary thing in my life. 150319 ... unhinged flugelhorn 150319 ... raze the intro did nothing to prepare me for how hard this shit was going to swing. take me back in time fifty-five years. let me sit at a corner table nursing a stiff drink, listening to that man spit his soul into his alto sax between the erratic cymbal work of ice cubes on stemmed glass. let my eyes drink in the sweat that makes him blind. 220517 ... kerry we went to brothers II, a townie/dive bar two blocks away, and it was just as cramped and bleh as i expected and i'll never go back. jeff and his girlfriend were there. he had a corona and she had vodka because she counts calories. several huge tvs were showing the last game between philly and houston, score still 0-0. everyone sitting around the bar was wearing red white and blue. on the walk over we passed by the house on the corner where i sometimes see groups of young-ish people crowding around at night and jazz music emanating from within. we've wondered about it many times--is this just someone throwing parties on the regular? is it an unmarked jazz club? that night there was again a cluster of young people on the corner, and i could see inside more people and a big piano, and the light was kind of blue-ish. we mentioned it to jeff and he said, yeah, it's just some musicians who live there and on tuesdays they have a jazz night and you can just go in there, and you can drop a dollar into this fishbowl or you can donate some money through venmo, and yeah, it's just there, just go in, it's whatever. it's for everyone. 221107 ... epitome of incomprehensibility kerry, you should try it, I think! Maybe bring a friend so you have built-in people to interact with (my reason for carting Julia along to Accent_open_mic on Sunday. ... Jazz has been around me off and on since I was a kid. Mom has a good jazz collection; Montreal jazz festival does too; I still have a CD from the Jazz 201 class in my older Concordia days. And there was Uncle Lorne. Jazz musician as well as artist. I didn't know him that well, but I wish he'd stuck around for longer. Which made me think: my alleged novel has a dead music-composer relative who's sort of relevant to the plot. Lived in Vienna, was into American jazz. And another character in an earlier story had an estranged jazz-musician father. Also German...but that's like MPB, sort of, and not like my uncle. But I keep being partly_autobiographical without meaning to. 221108 ... Soma there's an anime I love called kids_on_the_slope that introduced me to my love of jazz. I never really listened to it much before then. 231204 ... raze (i've always wanted to watch that one. yoko kanno wrote the music, and her contribution to "cowboy_bebop" is maybe my favourite soundtrack in the history of anything. some days i think i could live inside that music and i wouldn't be unhappy at all.) 231204 what's it to you? who go blather from