Sweet Saxophone

The other weekend, we attended a jazz festival in honor of city day (the city celebrates its birthday with a big street festival full of ice cream, balloons and various forms of entertainment). The group that played travels here infrequently from Moscow, and Galya bought all the teachers tickets as a gift. They were very good and I really enjoyed listening to them. They played a lot of big band music, which was entertaining in light of my being a flapper for our school skit, and they also adapted Russian classics like "Song of the Volga Boatmen" to jazz. I wish you could have been there. Duke Ellington was present, among others. It was a big night.