Micah and the Hard Boppers

Live from Berkeley, it’s Trombone Micah!

An evening drive up to Berkeley took me to the California Jazz Conservancy, where Micah has been taking an evening class and playing jazz. The group played a set with three tunes:

1. Four (Miles Davis)
2. Anthropology (Charlie Parker)
3. Nutville (Horace Silver)

The music was joyful, challenging, and uptempo.

Interestingly, the group’s teacher, Dave LeFebre, was also my jazz teacher when I was a grad student at Berkeley, decades ago. Indeed, he and Susan Muscarella led the Jazz program at UC Berkeley when I was there, but then built the separate Conservatory nearby. I said “hi” and “thanks” to Dave.

Afterwards, Micah and I found some super-authentic Hunan food nearby – so authentic that we couldn’t read the menu and chose by picture. We ended up with a delicious five-spice beef with soupy noodles as well as a dish with smokey bacon and some kind of “flower” that tasted a bit like bamboo shoot.

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