wynton

this is us last night.

i suppose a more accurate description would be that this is where we were last night.


but I think, given the music, that a melding of subjects is appropriate.

anyway, the hill auditorium is pretty impressive and the acoustics are even more so.

This is who we were last night; that is, who we were with.

Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

they played all the standards we didn't know but should have. Most impressive was their blistering "sweet georgia brown" and of course, "a night in tunesia."

something about the pure note that horns sound in your soul makes you feel as though there is a reason for everything.

between songs, wynton offered small commentary: "when people from other planets come to earth, they aren't going to want our technology. They're going to want some barbecued ribs, and some blues."

on a thursday night, this is about all you can ask.