Hardly a week goes by, and at some times a day doesn't even go by, without me finding one reason or another to pine for The Crescent City.The next 10 days raise this longing to a level beyond compare, for it's Jazz Fest Time!
From this morning through Sunday and then again next Thursday through Sunday, The Big Easy will be easy with music and music will be absolutely EVERYWHERE!
Despite the fact that I can't make it this year (though at this point I'm still holding out the long shot hope that something will come through that takes me east in time for next weekend) I'll be swooning at each bit of music that comes down from the fairgrounds and lands on my iTunes courtesy of WWOZ.org and when I can't listen to it live, I'll be listening to the innumerable recordings I've made of everything from piano night to my friends James Singleton and Clive Wilson. I'll probably watch the short video I recorded of Donald Harrison and Galactic about a dozen times and listen tot he my jazz fest recordings of Ani DeFranco, and John Fohl, Sonny Landreth, and Anders Osborne, and more... more... more.
Yeah... it's the best week of the year right now in NOLA and one of these days I'll get back there.
Next year in Jerusalem!
