What an amazing visual and sound Jazz-Bite & Leslie & Lee's home in 2009 ! " March 29th, " Leslie Just told me a bit earlier ...
This is the second-part of this amazing event that I was fortunate enough to be included in by my two dear friends Leslie and Lee at their warm and welcoming home one Sunday afternoon back in 2009. I had a blast : I got totally drawn into filming and recording this amazingly intimate and thoroughly enthralling moment of sound and sight and harmony between man and woman and both their instruments as well as their voices as they serendipitously were drawn together to play for three or so hours as we all also ate excellent foods and wines chosen and prepared by our two hosts. There were probably thirty or so of us there gathered closely around the front of their living room that looks out onto the street out front where all the musicians were playing ...
This is the second year of this wonderful event and sadly the first year I only recorded things with pictures but no videos with sound. Oh well, I think I have made up for it here in 2009 with many different sound snippets of the ten to fifteen musicians that were all drawn here becasue of Leslie charisma and consuming support of the the jazz world today with so many talented musicians all searching for paying stages to be heard with also audiences that help through their enthusiasm and great appreciation to keep jazz well and alive today.
Leslie with all her help at the Smithsonian Institutions Friday Jazz Evenings has done way more than her part to keep the Jazz-Dream alive and thriving and I am sure that each and every musician gathered here on this Sunday afternoon was in their way paying a certain homage to Leslie and her efforts/beliefs in them and amazing successes that often included them at one time or another. I am only guessing all of this : but I could feel it there as well as see it in their facial expressions as well as hear it in the strong/cheerful voices of many of the musicians...
And thanks to my talented photographer friend Karen that stopped by my wine store yesterday we got to talking and with one thing leading to another yesterday Karen helped me to get these two sound snippets of both Gene and Maria here for you all to enjoy.
It's now Valentine's Day on Sunday, February 14th, 2010 and I will be posting this now and calling Leslie and Lee so that they may be the first to see these two JAZZ snapshots that I have just posted with Karen's help of yesterday.
Being a visual artist, painter, sketcher, poet, etc ( go to : chatart.blogspot.com, chatpoetry.blogspot.com, chatwine.blogspot.com ) for more of all of this if you care. I loved filming all of this in my own artsy way to show the relationship and dependence of man and woman musician to their instruments. I loved all the body and instrument language between the two. Hope you do, too ...
I believe that Karen and I will be working together on the many other " sound snippets " that I still have and wish to post as well. So, stay-tuned and in the meantime enjoy Valentine's Day as well as the aftermath of what has been billed here in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area as the snowstorm of the century!
And, can you believe it, we may have 2-4 inches more of snow starting tomorrow?!? Yikes.
I think I will listen once again to both Gene and to Maria here.
Oh, each time I meet Maria I tell here that she reminds me of Bernadette Peters! She's certainly got her talent as well as her looks wouldn't you all say? Go Maria!
Cheers, TONY
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