Leave it to that intrepid scout Austin J. Casey to give JAZZ LIVES readers the ultimate fashion advice — courtesy of Hot Lips Page (and the Baltimore Afro American in 1945):
I feel beautified already. Don’t you?
May your happiness increase.
Leave it to that intrepid scout Austin J. Casey to give JAZZ LIVES readers the ultimate fashion advice — courtesy of Hot Lips Page (and the Baltimore Afro American in 1945):
I feel beautified already. Don’t you?
May your happiness increase.
Sometimes the best music presents us with the answers: This is how it is, and this is how it should be. Other musical explorations seem to ask Beethoven’s question: Must it be? Or perhaps What lies beyond?
The quartet of musicians who enlarged our horizons on April 13, 2013, at the Finland Center, asked the latter question — sweetly, not abrasively — and let us compose our own answers. They are Lena Bloch, tenor saxophone; Frank Carlberg, keyboard; Billy Mintz, drums; Dave Miller, guitar.
I invite you to join their inquiries, to allow their music to lift you aloft.
Monk’s WE SEE:
Lena’s HIGH POINT:
Billy’s FLIGHT:
Berlin’s series of questions, HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN?:
Ted Brown’s FEATHER BED:
Lena’s TWO OCEANS OF MADNESS:
Dave’s RUBATO:
And the concert ended ALL TOO SOON:
All of these fine vibrations were created by these four eminent courageous players . . . but we also thank Janna Rehnstrom of the Finland Center Foundation for giving this music a home — for establishing a regular concert series here, at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York — details here.
May your happiness increase.
Posted in "Thanks A Million", Bliss!, Generosities, Jazz Titans, Pay Attention!, Swing You Cats!, The Heroes Among Us, The Real Thing, The Things We Love
Tagged Beethoven, Billy Mintz, Dave Miller, Finland Center, Frank Carlberg, Irving Berlin, Janna Rehnstrom, Jazz Lives, Lena Bloch, Michael Steinman, questions, Salmagundi Club, Ted Brown, Thelonious Monk