Marshall Keys the wonderful jazz saxophone musician really plays with such purity and intensity and fabulous scope that he pretty much steals the show when he blows. That wind , that force, that energy of passion and soul and feeling that grows and grows and explodes and throttles and run and energizes as it passes from his belly through his esophagus and touches his vocal chords and through his mouth over his tongue and through his teeth into the steely chambers of his well-buttoned metal sax is something to listen to and then behold for verification and for holding onto the moment - incredulous disbelief and wonder and wanting and hunger and satisfaction, pinching oneself to be sure that it is all really true - any part of it - this wonderful state that he and his music create?!
Thanks Marshal : I think I may speak for all of us and say that we really do appreciate you style, sound, motion and music. What a lovely song of jazz that you together with the other jazz musicians are able to create and render and share 'tween yourselves and then offer up to us so seamlessly, wonderfully, succinctly and with flare and pleasure all so nicely presented in one grand package - one great stage of live jazz! Thanks.
I help to select the wines above through our wine store Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 Tel:202-363-4265 sales@clevelandparkwine.com http://www.clevelandparkwine.com/ also on Facebook now at : Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits, and on Twitter at : cpwinespirits ) that I have now managed for the last eleven years. We try and have something for everybody so that they are happy and relaxed when they listen to this extraordinary, intimate, up-close-almost-in-your-face-space jazz music.
Marshall Keys takes a moment to confer with Gene Bertoncini our special guest jazz guitarist that has come all the way from New York city to play here on this Sunday afternoon. That's quite special, too.
There be the round and dark and mysterious and intriguing hole/space where all the sing and the song and the play and the theater and the action, quiet and power of the jazz sounds of a saxophone come into our consciousness. What a great thing : and all through that itty bitty small and unassuming space?!?
Blurring the lines as the sounds of jazz come thundering and suddenly and magically into the realm of all our combined , alert and activated senses.
I love this shot above of Marshall : it's blurry in action and movement and playing or getting ready to : all which speak of more jazz sax sounds for everyone to enjoy here in March of 2009 on a really special Sunday afternoon.
Moments before Marshall Keys gets up to start things off all over again at Leslie and Lee's home in Bethesda, Maryland.
Michael Bowie, one of our bass players takes a break and re hydrates.
Lots of fun, what a treat to have been there. See you all again same place same day and afternoon next year Lee and Leslie willing. TONY
P.S. To hear these musicians play live go to my other blog site called : Qynohtna.blogspot.com. Cheers. Karen Akerson an excellent photographer here in Washington D.C. helped me get those posts posted with the live jazz sounds of Marshall, Gene , Bruce, Marija, Ken , Bart and the others. Thanks Karen.
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