the real thing

okay.

this time it's for real.

i just saw dave brubeck perform live.

i'm like a swooning groupie over here.

dave brubeck was the first musician to appear on the cover of time magazine. he was a little embarrassed, because he felt that duke ellington should have been the one (but wasn't because of the racism of the time), and when he first received the issue of the magazine, he walked over to duke's dressing room and told him so.

i wanted to tell you the whole story about how i didn't know he was even in this area until an hour and a half before the concert, and how the ticket-buying website was malfunctioning, and all the phone lines were, well, off, and how i just ran out the door all hopeful and stuff... but it's not a very interesting story.

and yes, he did play "take five."