Rochester International Jazz Fest

June 24, 2014August 9, 2019

Orange Bronco

I guess they still make Broncos but not like this one. OJ sort of damaged the brand for a while with that Warhol-movie-like, slow speed chase.

We found four golf balls today without even trying. We never left the path to comb the underbrush like I used to do before the engorged tick incident. They were just laying out there in plain sight on the path as we skirted the course.

I’m keeping track of the Jazz Fest over here.

Mexican Groundhog

Marsh near Conifer Lane in Rochester, New York

We started a small army of beets from seed. The packet said the variety was good as greens so if they don’t develop below we’ll have them in a salad. We tore out the spinach that had wintered over and gone to seed and put the beets in that spot. It took us about an hour to transplant the wispy little things. A groundhog got at our cilantro early on but we caught him in a Hav-A-Heart trap and called animal control. I heard that the town lets them go over by the expressway interchange of 590 and 104.

Jazz Fest kicked off with a whimper for us but we found some cool stuff with our Club Pass. My brother, a Xerox (major sponsor) employee, gave us a couple of tickets for Janelle Monae at Kodak Hall so we popped in there for a few songs. The ushers who took our tickets at Kodak Hall asked, “Are you sure you want to go in there?” People were already out of their seats and in the aisles.

I’m keeping track of the Jazz Fest over here.

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June 29, 2013August 15, 2019

Minus The Blues

Phronesis, a bass player led trio with a lyrical piano player and frenetic drummer, were last night’s hit for us. So much music and action packed dialog. They made the cavernous Christ Church sound good.

Youn Sun Nah & Ulf Wakenius came on like a morphine drip at the Lutheran Church opening with a slow, minimal thumb piano and voice version of “My Favorite Things.” Pristine and somehow detached from their material they managed to take the hurt out of “Hurt,” the NIN’s song that Johnny Cash killed before he died but Youn Sun Nah has an absolutely amazing voice and she delivered a completely unique take on Nat King Cole’s “Calypso Blues” and brought the house down. Her YouTube video of the song has twice as many views as Nat’s.