A Jazzy Monday night

Melaku and I went to a club that we had tried to go to a few weeks ago. When we tried that time, it was closed for renovations. We got to the club about 9:30 and the music was just ready to start. We chatted up the bass player for a while before they went on then grabbed a table very close to the band. The place kept filling up and half way through the set it was bursting at the seams. The audience was 50-50 ferenge and locals.

They were 6-string bass, keyboards, drums, and tenor sax. Their material was mainstream jazz, and I asked them to the A-train which they did post haste. The bass player graduated from Berkeley in Boston and it showed. He was very articulate and especially strong with his right hand. The guitar player called in sick and we plan to go back next week when they are a quintet again. At one point the keyboard player was handed a bit of music, and then the introductions were made; it was then I figured out that all along the guy was "jamming". They were all very good and we left about 11PM after the full set.