Smoke
Was interested to recently see that Harold Mabern released an album from these sessions at Smoke in 2017, and was really pleasantly surprised to see that Ciro Baptista was involved, although not on this night at Smoke.
This is one of several times I saw Jimmy Cobb play recently and, as perhaps the most legendary jazz drummer alive, each time was much appreciated. I had a chance to meet both Jimmy and Harold at the club this night. Harold spoke to me about how the process by which he learned the piano, and suggested trying to play solos and other right hand parts only with your left hand as a practice routine. My piano teacher had mentioned that he liked playing at Smoke probably best of any NY jazz venue. We enjoyed dinner at the club and definitely found Smoke to be quite pleasant and comfortable on this night.
