Jazz Live 12+

Imagine being able to see everything at the Rose and Dizzy’s without having to travel to NYC! This is Lincoln Center’s crazy good gift to you.

Knocking down this gift horse by a star, though, because of serious navigation issues. If there is a way to back out of the selected video to the main menu, I haven’t figured it out yet. Thus, if I want to get back to the main menu, I have to close the app entirely and start over. Also, the app opens only in portrait and it’s not clear that the video plays in the more appropriate landscape mode - it does - so, like so many others, the app clearly needs to be optimized for iPad.

Since 1949, I have enjoyed jazz. It started before 1949 but got me rolling with first the music of Charlie Parker n Dizzy Gillespie n delivered Miles in a cool format which I enjoyed because at my age, around 17 ot 28, I thought I was cool.

At first I got thrown out of jazz clubs in Brooklyn where I lived because I ordered scotch n bourbon st the same time as something to drink. Kenny Durham was embarrassed one night when s customer broke a glass loudly by mistake during Durban’s solo. LTer hr complained about the lack of venues for jazz. I did got to Birdland n listened to Bud Powell, MJQ, Cannonball…and others before I joined the US Army n got stationed in France…

In Paris, I saw everybody who came to Paris from 1955 thru 1957… at Camelion, St Germain des Pres, Club Tabou, Mars Bar…and had to leave Paris to go to college which was why I joined the army.

College, grad school, wife, kids, overseas assignments, but still jazz at Bradley’s or other clubs in the Village…and then when I came back from Hong Kong, Gordon David n Diane Coffee had s breakfast n I met this young musician. Wynton Marsalis. He stuck his hand out at the buffer table n introduced himself to an old banker at that time.

I love jazz n the elegance of the notes, the history of its musicians n the impact on American culture.

Love the content. If there is a way to stop stream and hold place, I can’t find it. Sometimes life happens and I really want to restart where I stopped. I may be missing something, but it shouldn’t take a lot of exploration to stop and start!