Limey! I'm back and it was so exquisitely wonderful!!
I enjoyed the jazz but some of it was a bit too....tootley-tootley. Have no idea if you know what I mean there...
But the blues bands were just...oh, just really good!
There was a blues singer who performed at Obamas inauguration ball. She was tremendous, but the keyboard, horn and drums was too loud and drowned her out a bit which was slightly disappointing. They just weren't correctly balanced...didn't give her the space I think she should have had.
I can definitely say that fusion jazz is not my favorite. Or at least what I heard so far.
I can see why people take to blues. Just tremendous! And a positive message throughout, with many of the women singing songs about God which I didn't expect at all!
And there was a rapper who rapped a positive message and he was so amazingly good! ((Apparently, standing up and yelling bravo! is a little out of the norm

). I'm quite a square.
Oh and there was a song, think it might have been called...Summertime? And the young womans voice just gave me goosebumps! I would bet she is going to become famous. Never heard someone do the things she could with her voice! She reminded me of a singer I heard when I was very little, I think her name was Minnie Ripperton...not that the songs were anything alike really, but the voices my gosh!
Okay, I just really enjoyed myself and will shut up now.