This past Friday Haley and I got to travel into the city for a unique experience. We were meeting his mom and Pat for a night of jazz music at the swanky SMOKE lounge. Performing that night was The 9th Anniversary Jazz Sextet - featuring Eddie Henderson, Eric Alexander, Steve Davis & the Joe Farnsworth Trio. It was absolutely awesome. We were a little late in arriving and our seats were literally five feet from the stage. The space was small and intimate, just barely fifty people but the acoustics were great.

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Of all the trips into NYC that we take, few are actually for fun and/or pleasure. Normally we are engaged in client meetings that leave us stuck in some studio all day or at some overly swanky event where we feel less than comfortable. When my parents proposed going into the city to get dinner and show to celebrate my mom’s birthday I thought it was great. That was last year around this time. So when they suggested we do the same thing again this year, I had to stop and remind them that we shouldn’t start some type of family tradition that’s loosely based around a Spanish mad-man, but I think that actually encouraged them.

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