March 31, 2005
Live Jazz at the Soup
There's something intoxicating about being entranced by good jazz improvisation.
Last night I certainly found myself in a trance like state at times whilst listening to the Todd Hardy Quintet at the new Soup Plus. Even though my friends Robert and Michael and I had situated ourselves on the mezzanine level to afford ourselves the chance to talk as well as listen, I could not help but be drawn into concentrating on the interplay between the musicians. In this case it was Todd on trumpet together with a sax player, an acoustic bass player, a drummer and a pianist (Darren Heinrich).
I find it very refreshing for my mind when I listen to excellent music played live. Especially with jazz, I am so focussed on and absorbed by the music that there is no room for any of those annoying, distracting thoughts that may have been left over from my day's work.
I hope to be back at the Soup again one evening soon.
Posted to Music by Keith PittyHi there Keith,
funny what you find when "self-googling"!!!
I've just registered a domain name "toddhardy.com.au", and was checking if google was showing it yet and noticed your site.
Glad you enjoyed what we were doing at the soup. The next day after that gig myself and the piano player travelled to Nagoya in Japan to perform at World Expo. While over there we recorded a CD with a Japanese bass player and drummer. I'll have to keep you posted re when we launch it here in Sydney.
Keep squizing Keith!
TODD
