![]() Watching Jim Pinchin on tenor saxophone, Al Jacobson on trombone and Sean McAnally on trumpet, I saw those jazz musicians for what they are: human beings who stand on stage with their lungs twisted and hardened into brass visible on the outsides of their bodies. Like they are inside a snow dome of their own shaking. I love jazz, I marvel at the way its practitioners are able, to my ear, to detonate single notes and then walk around and play in the fallout. The music was superb, as far as I understand jazz, which is not far. But there I sat, inside, in a kind of reverse hibernation den, and, with 150 others, listened to the sextet dig into songs from 30 years ago. It was 23C outside, blue sky, soft wind, the kind of gentle weekend day that Edmontonians pine for during the winter months up here on latitude 53, the kind of day to be outside in the river valley-or, at least, to luxuriate in the walk across the warming asphalt from the car to the mall. ![]() A jazz club on a June 30 afternoon is a peculiar place for illumination in Edmonton. ![]() Halfway through my second beer of the Edmonton Jazz Ensemble's reunion at the Yardbird Suite, I saw it all quite clearly.
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