Jazz and Lime with Marsalis

well yesterday the entire day was pretty droll and dreary....after spending the afternoon at school, i headed home by 8 in the evening (its still bright out here) and as soon as i stepped into the building at home it started to pour....and i mean really heavy rain....the showers lasted a while but i was very sleepy and saw an empty couch in the living room and being goan just had to use it properly.

at around 9:30 pm karl calls me and says there is some jazz show happening in the neighborhood....he didn't seem too excited about it but decided to go anyways....we pick up adele on the way and headed to the place.

it was in a nice club called lime....they had stringent security checks at the door by a big African American man.....even the airports are not that stringent :)

well we finally through and i hear the faint hums and strums from the back of the club...we go there and just then a drum solo erupts...this drummer is tall thin wears glasses and is tripping on the kit...i was flying listening to him....he goes on for 3-4 minutes and i am blown away...then the band joins in and they wind down the song....there was a drummer and sax guy who was a thin white man with a hat and a light beard (leading the band) and a keyboardist who looks like loy from the indian group (shankar essan and loy) :)

anyways they announced that the band was taking a break as they had finished thhe first set...we arrived late :(

adele knew the sax guy and was talking to him..she introduced me...his name is john....i asked him about the rest of the band...and turns out they are all really professional guys who charge a bomb...most are from different bands but since they were all in town at the same time decided to jam up for one gig.....and the awesome drummer was Jason Marsalis from the MARSALIS FAMILY.....for those who don't know much about jazz....the MARSALIS family is to jazz what the bachchan family is to bollywood...except 10 times more popular.....i was too awestruck to talk to Jason right then so slipped to the backdoor yard of the place to eat chicken wings being barbecued and to gather my confidence.

after we done with dinner...we returned to the band...they were just beginning the second set...this time a guitarist joined them as well....they were wild...each song improvised and each musician doing a killer solo.

they ended the set with their cover of Georgia by Ray Charles.....mind blowing.

after the show i chatted with most of them (and got pics of course) and met Jason...though the guitarist was the nicest and sat with me for almost 20-30 mins...just talking...but they were all great guys...no ego's and all!!!

after the gig it was around 1 am and karl, adele and me decided to go home...we passed a Caribbean bakery and bought some chicken patties...were different from the Bombay ones....but nice.

then we headed home.

the bug exterminator came in the morning to do a second round...so we had to leave.

the sky is all cloudy like its going to rain...nice and cool.

sitting in my bros office....lets see what happens today :)