Turquoise Cafe Concert Report

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On February 12, 2015, The Jade visions Jazz trio performed at the Turquoise café-bar Europa located in North Pacific Beach, California. The quartet was composed by four talented male musicians: Les on the sax, Grant on guitar, John on bass and Steve on percussion. The band played mostly covers of a great American jazz player; Bill Evans which music is considered to be of great influence after WWII and the legendary Mile Davis Although they were scheduled to play at 7:00 PM, they ended up playing at 8:55 PM. The night was just perfect, and the ambience and weather really made this night enjoyable. The band played pieces like “peace piece”, “Green dolphin Street” and Gary’s theme.
The night offered a pleasant, calm weather not too cold not too hot. I was accompanied by my friend Alex who also enjoys all type of music; we had no idea where this Café was so we used the GPs on our phones to guide us through to find the place. After a twenty minute drive from home we finally arrived to Turquoise Café , We thought that it was going to be a fancy place since its located near the beach and La Jolla but as we entered the atmosphere was very …show more content…

I’m familiar with this song because my dad had an album of Mile Davis and was the one that caught my attention from the album.The song certaintly inspired me a feeling of peace and at the same time it gave me a glance back in time. The song started very mellow and an extended solo was played by Les (Sax) the melody then had its “rising action” where all instruments accompanied the melody. I must say this song was very differently played compared to the album one, the piano gives a great essence to the song but the main “star” here is the sax. The sax is like the heart of a song. It was very romantic and poetic in a sense of

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