The Harold Arlen Celebration at The Blue Note

The Arlen concert last night was mesmerizing! I especially enjoyed the singular talents of a lady I had never heard of before: Ms. Paula West. She needs to blow off The Blue Note and go out to Hollywood to make a much deserved million dollars per MINUTE! Ann Hampton Callaway, Andy Bey and another lady sang but they paled in comparison to Paula. The jazz musicians were superlative and performed flawlessly. My friend Jim and I had excellent seats just one row back from the stage. I could have reached out and touched all the performers except the piano player who was a bit further away! GRIN The concert continues tonight and tomorrow night just in case anyone's interested. There's also a Carnegie Hall celebration on February 14; this is the day before what would have been Harold Arlen's 100th birthday.
It was also great to see Jim; I never saw him looking better in the 16 years I've known him. We hadn't seen each other in a while and he looked like he was really enjoying life. I think his girlfriend is good for him! GRIN
Thanks for everyone's comments about this new blog of mine. Unfortunately the way this web site sets things up I would have to download and use something called ActiveX to upload a picture of myself. I am so sorry but my Windows XP software indicated to me that this was not a good idea. There's a picture of me at my Yahoo! home page. My Yahoo! handle is nynavelman. Sorry again for the inconvenience. Please take care and be well, guys! --Matt