Happy Anniversary, Café Jazz!

WOW!

It has been a year of journey and jazz, and I couldn’t be happier! When I first started this site, I had no idea that it would be as big as it is now. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, and after years of thinking, I thought, I should just do it. And feel my way around over time. Improvise, like Gershwin, and other jazz musicians I’ve encountered in my life, whose music have opened the world to me, who made my life more meaningful.

So here’s to spending another year of jazz! Thank you, my dear readers. Your support means so much to me.

And because my very first post was dedicated to The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Take Five, I thought I’d give you one of the very best contemporary performance of the song that I’ve seen in a long time. This is Kurt Elling and Al Jarreau in their vocal interpretation of Take Five in the show, Legends of Jazz.