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Jul. 20th, 2003 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iamomAnother amazing day with Z today. I think she has been laughing nonstop for about 3 days now. She's hilarious to be around -- she genuinely cracks us up a dozen times a day. Makes us laugh till we cry, sometimes.
I dropped her off with B at the hospital while I picked up my All Access Pass to the jazz festival and then caught a couple of amazing shows. Rémi Bolduc was first, an alto sax player from Montreal who also used to be one of my sax teachers when I was at McGill, and then Dave Liebman, the famous soprano/tenor sax player who originally rose to stardom as an early member of Elvin Jones' band in the 70s and 80s. Elvin Jones was Coltrane's famous drummer from about 1962 until 1966 (he dropped out of Trane's band only in the last year before Trane died in '67 when his music was getting wayyyy out there), and Liebman got a lot of his Coltrane chops together while he was in that band, I think. He has a totally unique sound and approach though, and when he does pull out his Coltrane alter ego, it doesn't sound at all like he's copping Coltrane licks -- it just blows you out of your seat, it's so intense. I was sitting about 10 feet in front of him and I couldn't believe how heavy it was.
Supposed to commute to the call centre tomorrow, but I think I'll forego that and work from home instead. Tomorrow night, the great Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is playing (most famous for writing and performing the score to The Mambo Kings, I'd guess). And Tuesday, a real highlight -- Toronto-based singer and expert in the Persian ghazal, Kiran Ahluwalia. You have to try and listen to her somewhere if you can. She has an amazing CD. Her voice sounds like one of those middle eastern stringed instruments -- it's haunting, achingly beautiful. Can't wait to see her in person.
I dropped her off with B at the hospital while I picked up my All Access Pass to the jazz festival and then caught a couple of amazing shows. Rémi Bolduc was first, an alto sax player from Montreal who also used to be one of my sax teachers when I was at McGill, and then Dave Liebman, the famous soprano/tenor sax player who originally rose to stardom as an early member of Elvin Jones' band in the 70s and 80s. Elvin Jones was Coltrane's famous drummer from about 1962 until 1966 (he dropped out of Trane's band only in the last year before Trane died in '67 when his music was getting wayyyy out there), and Liebman got a lot of his Coltrane chops together while he was in that band, I think. He has a totally unique sound and approach though, and when he does pull out his Coltrane alter ego, it doesn't sound at all like he's copping Coltrane licks -- it just blows you out of your seat, it's so intense. I was sitting about 10 feet in front of him and I couldn't believe how heavy it was.
Supposed to commute to the call centre tomorrow, but I think I'll forego that and work from home instead. Tomorrow night, the great Cuban jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is playing (most famous for writing and performing the score to The Mambo Kings, I'd guess). And Tuesday, a real highlight -- Toronto-based singer and expert in the Persian ghazal, Kiran Ahluwalia. You have to try and listen to her somewhere if you can. She has an amazing CD. Her voice sounds like one of those middle eastern stringed instruments -- it's haunting, achingly beautiful. Can't wait to see her in person.
