h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Words can't even begin to describe how amazing it was. It was SO good. The best jazz I've ever heard and seen performed. My god, it was just so great. Nothing was wrong about it. It was peformed in Symphony Hall (Boston, just in case you didn't know which landmark on the map I was located by).

They started off with this Ellington tune, followed by a Monk tune, and then this really great Afro-Cuban tune. Then to end the first part they ended it with a Blues. The blues, just like everything else they played, was just beautiful. So beautiful...

Intermission. Went down to lounge type area. Order drinks . Fifteen minutes up. Return to seat. 2nd Balcony 1st row, B. Better seats than one might imagine. I could see everything...

For the whole second part they played Coltrane's entire 'A Love Supreme.'

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There's just nothing I can say. It was so...

so...

well, think of any variation of the adjectives, 'best brilliant, and magnificent,' and you might perhaps understand...

The encore was a dixielandish type version of Happy Birthday for one of their trumpet players. It was great because I honestly couldn't get enough of hearing them although PEOPLE WERE CLAPPING ON 1 AND 3, THE RETARDS.

But I didn't mind too much. It was worth getting to hear the band play more and watching in mesmerized admiration as the drummer, Herlin Riley, just entirely blew everyone away with his playing.