Posts tagged piano jazz

Personal responses to music assume numerous forms based on individual experiences or the spirit of the music. Celebratory music inspires dancing; spiritual music, prayer; blues, relief from pain; crooning, romance; dirges, grief; percussiveness, acoustic communication, sometimes coded; Muzak, manufactured calming relief from uncomfortable silence; rock, energy; free music, freedom; marches, …

So there I was to see the magical and comical and apparently never-aging Penn & Teller in the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino. After taking my seat, there appeared on the stage—no kidding—a piano-bass jazz duo! In Las Vegas yet! In a theater! In …