PolSynth - Political Synthesis

Rapturous. Incomparable. Breathtaking. Once in a lifetime. I can find no more apropriate words to describe the sum total of the performances at the October 1st Jazz for Obama event in NYC.

Obama: Jazz man

I didn’t plan to write any of this but I just couldn’t keep this experience to myself.  Hank Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargrove, Stanley Jordan, Roy Hanes, Jeff Tain Watts, Aaron Goldberg, Bilal, Edsel Gomez, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride, Brad Mehldau and so many others whose names I don’t have at hand but whose performances were stunning. It’s impopssible for mere words to fully capture the experience of such a signal event for a lover of Jazz. This assemblage of Jazz luminaries will most likely never happen again. I’m still in shock. The standing-ovations still seem too short. Read the rest of this entry »