Another fun event of our visit to The Big City was the opportunity to go to the Lucky Star in Front Royal see our nephew, Burke, playing there as part of a jazz group. You would not think of Front Royal as a hotbed of jazz music. It is a nice small town with lots of things to do out in the natural world such as running the New River, caves, horse activities, etc. On its way to becoming a bedroom community to Washington's environs. But tends more toward Reba and George Jones than John Coltrane.

The Lucky Star was a very neat experience. Good food, reasonable prices. The best part of it all, however, is live music every night and jazz on Saturday. Any time you all hit Front Royal, by all means go to The Lucky Star down on East Main Street.

But the best was some really good jazz. Burke says it is “after Coltrane” if you can use that for music as well as art. Accused Ron of childish jazz revisionism for advocating the post Satchmo-Duke jazz which he for some reason did again today. To Ron's credit, he did a post on good jazz. Burke's group was really good, much more enjoyable than Coltrane. Looked at a couple of Coltrane videos on YouTube and could not find one that did credit to the music we heard that Saturday evening. Even Coltrane's “Stairway to the Stars” Ron has on today's post. Have to admit that the Modern Jazz Quartet was excellent. With vibes, everything is good.

They had Burke on drums, a sax, electric guitar, and string base. Each one excellent musicians. The sax player did a couple of songs on a bass flute, too. Have never seen nor heard solos on a bass flute before. Fascinating, especially in the hands (lips) of a good musician. Anyway, guess I need to eat crow (yuck. Does not taste like chicken). There is good jazz out there. Even without Satchmo.