Wow, amazing. Really amazing. I have a very limited vocabulary to describe music, unfortunately, but Maceo Parker and his band were unbelievable tonight. I've actually seen Maceo Parker once, but at a much bigger venue when he was opening for someone else with a very different style, so I don't think I was ready for the funk. And I have to admit I was a little uneasy at first with the whole funk scene -- in Santa Cruz, in particular, it seemed kinda like a bunch of oblivious middle-aged white people who didn't realize how incredibly dorky they were. But by the end of the concert I have to admit I was on my feet with everyone else, because he and his band were just so incredibly talented. And they were clearly really, really into live performance. (I think he actually does something like 200 shows a year... wow.) The venue also turned out to be terrific -- the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz. I understand why people say it's a small place -- it's not really *that* small for a jazz club, but then, jazz places tend to be small in general, and when you have totally A-list performers like Maceo Parker blasting out amazing tunes and exploding into the crowd, it *feels* really small. It also seemed kinda bare bones when we first walked in, but again, he and his band just completely filled the space and made it alive. Anyway, one of the best concerts I have been to in a long time, if not ever. Awesome.
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