cool

ever notice how cool jazz musicians are? i mean no matter what? you can take the biggest nose-picking geek and if he plays double bass or a hammond b3 with any sort of talent he's cool.

i was cool enough to initiate a girl's night out at jimmy mak's. jimmy mak's used to be this dive of a greek joint that happened to have live jazz six nights a week, happend to be voted one of the top 100 places to hera jazz in the world, and also happend to have mel brown as the main draw three of those six nights. he was the studio drummer for motown records for years, and they say he's the drummer on about half the albums that came out of motown records clear up into the 1970's. he played with all the greats, and he's great himself.

jimmy mak's closed for about a month this summer and moved across the street, but now it's a swanky jazz club, with black and velvet everywhere. i hadn't been there since they moved, and i was properly impressed. but as i orderd my decaf, which followed my rc cola, i realized that there are a few not-so cool things to do in a jazz club.

drinking coffe in a jazz club is cool - if it's not decaf
drinking cola in a jazz club is cool - if it has rum in it
smoking in jazz club is cool - unless there are other people in the place
nodding along to the music is cool - bobbing your head side to side isn't
phrases like "that's right" or "comeon now" are cool - phrases like "rock on" aren't
snapping to the music is cool - clapping to the music is not

overall i stayed pretty cool...if you didn't look too closely at my drinks.