Ignore my posted Plan for last night. Carol and I revised the plan almost as soon as I hit Publish. Then we actually followed the revised plan to the end!

We started at with Itamar Borochov Quartet at the Wilder Room. We hadn’t been there yet this year. It is moderate sized room on the 2nd floor of the former Rochester Club (so former that most  people are not even aware of it). They acknowledge that their AC has only two positions, OFF and Arctic. It was a warm day so Arctic it was. We didn’t think we were too early, arriving at a bit after 5 for a 5:30 door opening only to find we were first in line! Borochov is from Jaffa, Israel and grew up with the music of the area. This carries over into his compositions, but does not dominate. We enjoyed the set immensely and were grateful to warm up on our way to the Temple where Tuck and Patti were performing. It is just the two and they have been married for 37 years and playing together for even longer. The lyrics were playful and her scat was delightful. His guitar playing is superb and I could have listened a lot longer but we needed to get some food before heading to Theater at Innovation Square for Lioness. This is an all female sextet. Three saxophones, Alto, Tenor and Baritone plus guitar, drums and bass. They were enjoyable and the music, composed by members of the group, was good. They were not quite as tight as expected, but this group has not been playing together for very long.

We decided to go to Montage for Big Lazy, BIG MISTAKE! They may have been fine but the sound levels were at 12. Carol took her hearing aids out and I muted mine. It didn’t help. I never opened the sound meter on my phone, but it must have been pushing 110 DB – normal performance in most halls runs around 80 at the high end. We left.

The logical stop was Max for John Baily Sextet where we found seats down front and several friends at adjoining tables. What a relief. Solid Jazz played at reasonable sound levels to wrap the last 30 minutes of the day. With 5 concerts for the night we headed right home without stopping at the Jam at Hyatt. It was almost midnight when we opened the door to the apartment.

Tonight’s plan is not well researched but we will start with it. We will open with Mike Ledonne Trio at Max at 6:15. Then we will move on to John Locke Group at the Temple Theater at 7:00. We show Jonathan Kreisberg  Trio at Glory House (not likely unless Ledonne is not interesting). Dinner and then Bobby Rush at Hyatt at 9:45. We are avoiding the steel drum group at Montage, combining steel drums with a sound man who likes it LOUD in that room is just too much. 

OMG only one more night after this.