We watched a special on musician Jon Batise this
evening. He and his family are New
Orleans natives and know music. He has
won many music awards and is still
humble to the common man. He also his
wife Suleika Jaouad tended to his wife was clinging to life with leukemia (now
she is better). If was a great wafch.
You heard the old joke on someone asking a beatnik in New
York City how to get to Canage Hall and he replied, “Practice man,
practice>”
I remembered that joke when the last part of Jon Batise
special that he gave a concert at Carnegie Hall. Jon has been practicing all his life.
It
also reminded me of Carnegie Hallin 1964 when a bunch of my Navy Pal drove up
from Lakehurst, NJ, to The Big Apple, Carnegie Hall to see a Folk Singers’ Hootenanny. We saw
plenty of well known folk singing groups, including Johnny Cash. Which I thought Johnny Cash was a country
singer, not a folk singer.
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