Female Jazz Vocalist Jamie Broumas Sings Her Heart Out March 27th, Sunday Afternoon 2-5PM 2011 @ Lee & Leslie's Home : What Wonder!

I like these pictures and wish that I had been able to get my videos working : I took them and yet they were not recording. Oh well, that's too bad as I shot some great video.




Having said this I think that Jamie Broumas ( jazz vocalist ) was definitely in her zone as she sang the lyrics to these songs. I have now seen her perform three times at Lee and Leslie's and I finally feel like I know her a wee, tiny bit when she she sings.




Jamie comes alive, completely with the words that she utters - pushes out of herself and propels them into the spaces around her. Her modulation, timing and delivery are captivating and draw me into her space - closer. Being so close anyway is incredible and then her words bring me/ us up so close that we are almost in an embrace of her voice - like a warm hug, like a comforting and emotional, actually a rush - an overflow, an explosion, a cathartic and gutsy release that included us.




I was convinced, won over as Jamie sang. She knew her stuff and was living it vividly.




These pictures reveal her singing and emotion. They show her clenched hands, pursed lips, her intense hidden eyes. She pushed herself through this microphone. She gave it in her way her all.




It was a group effort and she never lost sight of this. You could tell her close bond - a connection between her and the four others playing there in this intimate living room setting.




How could you not love all of this? It was personal and people and their names and their pasts and their presents and their futures and their reputations all on the line - so close, so clearly a team of jazz musicians taking joy and joy and solace and comfort - needing this moment - like a wonderful drug that is natural and everyone's and addicting without being controlling. A salvation and not a ruination. So much wonder and magic and life-affirming jazz sound.




I loved it all and got quite swept up by it all : Jamie and the other jazz musicians, too.




It was great to have this experience and I am looking forward to the next one next year Lee and Leslie. I am glad that this year I also got the opportunity to do some quick portrait sketches. I still have them and intend to take pictures of them and include them here later.




Thanks Jamie for sharing. This was certainly a very memorable moment for all of us.




Being an artist myself I am quite moved by times like these and take them in and get inside of them where I can and live and remember them with all that I have got. This is a great thing for me and keeps me vital and alive and at the top of my form. Thanks, TONY

A Day In The Life Of Lee Hoffman And Leslie Whipkey Filled One Glorious Sunday Afternoon W/ Live Jazz @ Their Home/ 2nd Time! Impressive.

This was a great moment that both Lee and Leslie Shared with their friends and colleagues at their home one Sunday afternoon in March 2010 was it? I believe so. They invited people to come to their house to listen to live jazz. This was the second time I think of four different times : one each year. I loved it and felt honored to be invited and included in such a personal and warm and intimate setting. Being up so close to these musicians was like a dream true and happening right before and around all my alerted/alive senses. Wow, almost too much sensory overload and yet I thrive at moments like this and opened myself completely to the experience and absorbed as much as I possibly could at the moment.




These pictures help me to continue that experience and reabsorb it even now a year or more later.




I love this picture with the Sunday afternoon sun outside shining into Lee and Leslie's living room. It adds a nice touch to the picture.




These pictures are of many of the musicians playing and before and after their performances, too. I will have to mention all of them shortly but will post this now on Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 from here at home in northern Virginia at 9:52AM with everything wet outside and cool from lots of gentle rain now. Stay-tuned and enjoy these pictures and let them tell you their story. I know that in the jazz world here that many of you already know these talented musicians that played so well together this Sunday afternoon. Cheers, TONY

Pictures to tell stories even without words ... I like that. It gives each of us a chance to interpret them and make up our own stories to the images. Being an artist myself I simply love this idea.























Merci Lee et Leslie mille fois! Quel grand plaisir! Le vin de chez notre magasin Cleveland Park Et Vins And Spirits chez vous ce Dimanche apres-midi avec tous les musiciens " live " du jazz... ohhh la la ... TONY