All That Jazz

So yesterday the curtain fell on the "Hobbit".
We will be putting on some extra performances in the Fall but it was still kind of hard to face the "it's all over now" thing. So one started crying and then we were all at it.
I know, you are probably thinking "What a soppy bunch" but when you have been seeing someone at least three to four times a week for almost five months...
I only started working with them in December and I was rather moved last night.
Just as well that a few friends came round in the evening and we emptied a bottle of "Baron de Roubiac" 2005 Bordeaux (well almost, having the rest now...) and watched Lee Evans. Now there's a way to completely take your mind of things!
So this morning I had some appointments but instead of doing that I was looking after my older one who was coughing her lungs out. So we had a stay at home day with lots of hot tea and DVD's. I actually managed to do some of my correspondence today.
Today was a Jazz and Blues day for me. A lot of Miles Davis, Etta James, Oscar Peterson, Sarah Vaughn and many others. There is a kind of honesty about that sort of music. I close my eyes and go back in time (not my time). Sitting in a Bar in an evening gown, the singer up on stage together with a fabulous band and some gentleman in a tux asking me to dance...
Nowadays, when you want to go out to dance, you have a hard time finding somewhere where asking someone to dance doesn't involve screaming at them five times and then reverting to some kind of sign language...
I guess all those classics my kids are watching all the time made me kind of sentimental about the "good ole days". I realize of course that every generation thinks that some time in their past were better times than now. And it will always be like this. Every new generation thinks they know better until they hit the time in their lives where they tell their parents or grandparents that they had it so much easier and that they wished they had lived in their time. (OK read this five times and it will make sense...)
So, Jazz and Blues!
Some of my favorites are:
Pete Fountain and Al Hirt - Lazy River Life Performance from ???
Oscar Peterson & Itzhak Perlman - Georgia On My Mind
Oscar Peterson - Someone To Watch Over Me
Miles Davis and John Coltrane - Jazz Selections
Ella Fitzgerald - Oh, Lady Be Good - from My First Jazz - what a fantastic song!
Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - It Never Entered My Mind

Or how about this Miles Davis and John Coltrane Performance:


These are just a few from a very long list.
I guess I inherited my love for music from my father. He has shown me that there is beauty in any kind of music and how to really appreciate it.
If you have any personal favorites. please feel free to share them with me!