I'd love to see Tommy E live. I used to live in Santa Cruz, back in the late 80' into the 90's. There is a jazz club there that had headliners on Thursday nights drop in for a show, usually in transit between LA & SF. It was a small and intimate club called Khumbawa (sp?), which I presume is still there if anybody is ever in the area. Anyway, I saw some truly amazing performances there, usually with a total audience of maybe 50-75 people. Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Pharaoh Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones... the A list of jazz, it was something I probably didn't appreciate at the time as much as I should have. But the take away was, yes, there is a level of musicianship out there that is truly unattainable for the 99.999% of us. I'm not surprised to hear Tommy lives in that realm.
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