Opening Night of the Jazz Festival

Opening night at the 2011 Jazz Festival!

Brilliant night, started off with Peter Brötzmann FULL BLAST fierce, aggressive and skilled from the initial blast from Brötzmann's saxophone to the encore. My dear companion and I went out of the Roundhouse vibrating.

Jumped on the Canada Line and rode up to the Vogue Theatre, one of my favourite theatres in the world to see THE LOST FINGERS. Interesting gypsy jazz, using old pop tunes as a base, fun but not really our thing.  Great crowd though, a mostly full house that was there to see them. bounced out of there to catch a bus to Performance Works on Granville Island .

We caught the show of the night there, Dan Berglund’s Tonbruket. Just wonderful! Propulsive, driving one minute, lyrical the next and pulling you with the whole way.  Two standing ovations; one, long encore and a strong desire to buy a CD (which we did not see). Cab home and sleep, do it again tomorrow (today).

Go see some Jazz!