Jazz improv absolutely blows my mind. Tonight was the last concert of the artist recital series at Oberlin. Herbie Hancock and his crew were amazing. I love listening to really good jazz groups and the way they play with rhythms and themes and pass them back and forth. It is not a gift I possess, but I am so grateful for folks like Mr. Hancock who share their incredible gifts with the rest of us. The show was unique and entertaining and a totally different kind of concert that any of the others in the series. He played one piece solo on piano and his guitar player played a solo piece that if I listened to on a recording I wouldn't have believed it was guitar. Amazing. Great concert. Great fun. Great music.
A gorgeous spring day without any immediately pressing work for either of us called for a long walk in the Rocky River Reservation, about a 35 minute drive from us. It was busy--lots of bikers and runners. The forest floor was covered in the beginning cover of spring and the river rushed along the trail. A nice change of scenery and, as always, nice to walk and talk with my husband.
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