On to day 3!  Last night we tracked our plan pretty well.  Started at Harro East with Mike Stern Group and never left until the last note stopped ringing. We enjoyed sitting with Marla and Frank.  Ran over to Kilbourn for Tom Harrell Chamber Ensemble.  He is a nut (really) never looked at the audience and had his head down until he picked up his trumpet and then oh boy! We only stayed for one number, thought it was the last because he was over time and were out the door when the he started the last number.  We stopped for food on the street and went into Kodak Hall for Esperanza Spalding Radio Music society.  We were enthralled at her performance of a major work she wrote and performed with the very large group.  She talked, sang, played both string bass and bass guitar (not at the same time) for close to 90 minutes.  After she resolved that work, she continued on with work by others for another 30 minutes or so.  We wanted to hear Gerald Clayton Trio at Max, but the line, after they had let everyone in, seemed like too long a wait so we went to the Big Tent for Sultans of Swing a Canadian Quintet who were very good.  Had not heard a 6 string violin before, that we could remember.  He was able to reach down to Viola range with his lower strings.  Plenty of gypsy style and other styles mixed in.  It was great fun and did not require the level of concentration on our part that Spalding’s work had.

Tonight’s plan 90 Miles at Kilbourn, Eivr Paldottir, at Lutheran Church, Breach Trio at Christ Church and maybe finally Max where Brandi Disterhoff is playing.  Of course as always there are plenty of other performances that are interesting including Kristian Blak in Hatch and even Ha Ha Tonka at Abilene.  I think we will give the Big Tent a miss as it is yet another Canadian Group playing Gypsy style folk.

I cannot list all the people we stopped to chat with along the way, too many and I fear my memory will fail me anyhow.  I do not keep notes.