Dec 29 2008
New Years Jazz
For me, New Years Eve and New Years Day is a very stupid non-holiday. I appreciate the time off from work and my mom always makes this fantastic ham dinner on New Years Day that makes me and my dad say, why don’t you make this more often, but essentially it’s a rather silly holiday. Last year I am pretty sure I was in bed by 10 and sound asleep come midnight.
Maybe that’s because I have never really been the partying type. I have only had a small handful off New Years Eves upon which I had anyone to kiss at midnight. I used to volunteer to work the New Years Eve Countdown shift at the classic rock radio station I worked for in Rockford Illinois. I would take requests and stuff online and hang out in the studio and darkened office building and rock out. Then I would drive to a friend’s house to spend the night and watch the fireworks going off all over the place.
There have been very few pleasant New Years Eve memories for me. Twice I have been at the Metro watching the band The Flaming Lips when the new year rung in. That was fun. I had a nice party once in St. Louis that involved eating fondue and another before that one where I kissed two women! Including my friend Cheri that I always had a bit of a crush on, which was nice.
No, for me, it makes little sense to mark the passage of time. It marches forward without noticing us at all, why do we bother to notice it? Still, if there’s an excuse for some great jazz, then I am going to use it.
Sure enough, you can always turn to the vocalists for music about just about anything. Diana Krall is gorgeous, sexy, play piano amazingly well and has a voice that oozes sex appeal. She is also married to Elvis Costello which is also just so damn cool you have to admire that. Among the vocal jazz players, she is one of the ones I like.
So, from YouTube, here is Diana Krall singing about New Years Eve.
