Haha, that's sad. I mean, these jazz guys are great guys (and I don't know how they pull it off) but I don't know why they do the gigs with highschool and college bands.

That's ok. How about this off topic story. I saw Toots Thielman play the Blue Note in NYC for his 80th birthday (just a few weeks back). Yeah, the show rocked. Mr. "Effortless Mastery" Kenny Werner was on piano, Billy Drummond on bass, and Reggie Workman on drums.

Well, Billy Joel was booked to sit in for a few tunes, so the place was packed! Unfortunately, it was packed with mostly mainstream pop listener Billy Joel fans who couldn't appreciate the incredable musical mastery of Toots as he plays the friggin harmonica! So, Billy Joel came on at the end and did two pop songs that he had recorded with Toots (NY State of Mind and... that other tune i don't know the name of).

Poor Billy Drummond and Reggie were stranded up there, having to play so square. Then, Kenny Werner was going to come back for the last song, but the fans made Joel stay on stage. He tried to cut through some blues tune, screwed up the words, and sounded generally bad. I think the rhythm section was pretty pissed.

But it was a great show. Kenny Werner really is the man! And Toots practically quoted the entire Real Book on the solo for his first tune. It was amazing.