da sunday jazz

clint strong canceled an hour before the gig, but nfl eagles fan paul metzger's 6-string antics more than made up for it. my sweetie and i went three for three with joey carter (the modern with james hinkle friday, fred's with dave and daver sat'day, the black dog sunday). a pleasure to see four guys (metzger, carter, drew phelps and dave karnes) working at such rarefied levels of improv and spontaneous communication. oaklin bloodworth's vocalismo and kwazi vann testifyin' on big-toned tenor were the icing on the cake. we had to cut out after an _insane_-tempoed "cherokee," but there was still a houseful o' musos and civilians, as well there should have been. nothing like seeing great players doin' it up the way it's s'posed to be done. inspiring stuff.