When you gotta' feel good

[winoweenie]

My grand-daughter is coming back today for a two day visit before she and her husband take off for a 6 month sojourn to Thailand. I am naturally edgey for the dawn to break, so arising 1&1/2 hours earlier than usual, I needed something to settle down with. I grabbed 5 CDs' and randomly put them on the victrola. I was immediately put into a happy swinging mood. What all this verbage leads to is I really found out this morning why Jazz is such an important part of my life. Erroll Garner was playing his lil' 5 foot patootie off and it was obvious he was enjoying every second. I started clicking the greats of Jazz off and each and every one had this same common thread running thru their music. Ella, Miles, Dizzy, Coleman, Peterson, Torme, Sinatra, Bird, Brubeck, et. al. loved what they did, put in the necessary time to master their instruments and didn't really give a RATS' about the bottom line as long as they were performing. Never saw Charlie Christian, Joe Pass, Herb Ellis, or Wes Montgomery Jump 4 feet in the air, do a split, a 360 * turn all the while playing the same stupid chord, one of the 4 they know. Saw a group on Comedy Centrals old broadcast yesterday and thought the new breed of musicians need a course in Gymnastics to perform. Oh well, this is the rant thread and I'm now in too good of a mood to continue, Oscar Pertersons' trio is sending out a jillion happy vibes. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/frown.gif[/img] WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]