Dmitri Matheny Group JAZZ NOIR
Michigan Tour Diary — Day 3
April 12 Traverse City MI
On a rainy Saturday night in the warehouse district of Traverse City, Michigan,
a killer jazz band plays classic film noir themes for a roomful of attentive, enthusiastic listeners.
The atmosphere is alive. Everyone feels it.
The musicians, audience, sound man, bartender, everyone.
The bandleader, a big, bespectacled, beret-wearing horn player,
looks around the room and smiles.
'This is it,' he thinks.
'It doesn't get any better than this.'
Photo by Myrna Jacobs