Forgot to mention what Carolyn and I did Sunday evening. We went up to Royce Hall at UCLA to hear Ahmad Jamal make music for about ninety glorious minutes. Accompanied by the other two members of his trio — Idris Muhammad on drums, James Cammack on bass — he played and played and played, and the audience was very happy. There's something very comforting about being in the presence of someone who does something about as well as it can be done. It was also not lost on us that it was a 75 year old man, steeped in the history of jazz, who was up there on that stage displaying so much energy.
Apart from the yutz behind me who kept kicking the back of my chair and the walk up the Janss Steps to the plaza, I had a very good time. If Mr. Jamal and his accompanists come anywhere near you, go listen.