Jazz Fest Finale

Friday night was pretty spontaneous, i ended up leaving the show about 10:00 to go check out a jam session that i vernon took me to.

vernon seemed to have all inside connections, within the ballroom of the baby grand. there were a lot of professional musicians there just jamming to the standards. ANNND there was free food. ^_^

it seemed particularly exclusive, and i did feel kind of odd being there. there was some group collecting money for a clifford brown statue. i donated $4 (it was all i had.) this would be a cool story to tell though, one day-- that i contributed $4 to the clifford brown statue somewhere in wilmington.

i met a christian drummer there, we talked a lot. he really wanted to know where he could get daily breads, so i ripped off a page that had the website. i recognized a few of the guys there from IAJE.

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Saturday, i rolled up before the sacred concert encore. i ran into vernon and his family and tom as well. i took a nice long nap on the steps of rodney square. i found brian and andrew chillin in their lawn chairs right before regina carter. people were booing the concert b/c of sound issues, but that was eventually cleared. regina carter wasn't as thin as her photo made her look. i spent the rest of the concert behind stage sitting on a cement block.

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Sunday, i was originally going to meet up with tim kim (he's thinking about an Asian christian fellowship, and i am all about that.) instead, i met up with andrew at the chinese fest (there was no way i was going to pay for parking, so we didnt stay.) we went right to the jazz fest at winterthur, the volunteer passes got us in for free. although, we tried to sneak away and got stopped by the golf cart patrol.

winterthur has the ugliest grass for a place that makes so much money, especially since they wont allow outside vendors. ($5 for a cheese burger, heck no.) i studied my GREs, lol. this guy kept on walking back and forth, who looked very familiar, turns out it was jack from U of Funk. man, he looked good playin that guitar. woooot! later that day justin manno came down to say hi, (recognized my "rogue" hair.)

cassandra wilson had a deeper voice than i anticipated. her songs were quite boring, and didn't sound much like jazz. professor foster noted that it was more of a folk feel. the afro-latin group was pretty hip though, especially that female alto player.

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thats it for the jazz fest, i still need to meet up with tina...i'll send her an email in a few days...

:)