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
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