Hop, Skip, Jump.

Some how we could not get a good map of what we planned put together before hand.  Carol had to meet me there while I held a place in line so we agreed to start at Montage where Miami Sax Quartet was performing.  We like the performance so much that we stayed right there through the set which ran a bit late. 

We left and decided to go to Rochester Club Ballroom where the Sicilian group was just wrapping up, but the food and service were reputed to be excellent.  We never found out.  As we arrived the group was just finishing up and the temperature in the room was so cold I developed goose bumps.  Carol started shivering so we left, the various alligator items on the menu did nothing to encourage us to stay.  We found what to eat on  Jazz Street.  Carol at Ludwigs and I had a Jambalaya plate from a stand.  We hopped over to Lutheran Church to catch the end of the set of Samuel Hallkvist Center which turned out to be very exciting and very avant-garde, too much so for a lot of people. We enjoyed but did not make it back for a full set.

We  skipped down the street to Abilene where Rosie Ledet & The Zydeco Playboys were performing in the tent over the parking lot.  Lots of beer, lots of people and great Zydeco music.  We stuck out the balance of the set and were really moving with the beat by the time they wound it down. 

On the way back to Jazz street we stopped at the Big Tent to hear Alison Brown Quartet.  Click on the link to learn more about this really bright banjo player.  We never got seated, but I am not sure we would have stayed in our seats in any event.  This was not Jazz, but it sure was great and there was a lot of jazz in the performance.  We loved it and stayed all the way through.

Jumped on over to Max for Bill Dobbins Trio with Chuck Israels & Rich Thompson.  This was very cool jazz.  The audience seemed to be mostly musicians.  Members of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble were there as was Hilario Duran who had played at Max the night before.  We stopped to talk with Jack Presberg the doctor with the best piano Jazz hands around, at the next table.  We had had maybe too much up tempo and rousing music and after 45 minutes we decided that tiredness and the hope of Abbots Custard warranted a slightly early departure.  Abbots was already closed 🙁

Haven’t plotted out tonight yet.  We have a City Newspaper party at Rochester Contemporary Art on East Ave so we may not get into a 6 PM show unless the rain holds off the crowds.  The phone is on except when it is off for shows.

Late add of proposed map: Christ Church at 6:45 Lutheran Church at 7:30 Big Tent at 8:30 Montage at 10 – go home at 11 and start all over tomorrow