No Big Thing

I'm in New York on business and in an uncharacteristic manner I went out after work to get some dinner and listen to some Jazz. I noticed that Ingrid Jensen was playing at the Jazz Standard which is a new(ish) jazz club in New York. I got a ticket (not really needed on a Monday early show) and went over. Dinner was good, the restaurant upstairs was nice and the menu had lots of barbecue favorites and the bar had an excellent bourbon selection. Later I went downstairs for the show and the club is in a basement, stage at one end bar at the other...proper. I had read interviews with Ingrid but I had never really listened to her music, I was very impressed, great tone, nice lines, and a very good band backing her. She had a replacement saxophone player, who was quite good, though you could tell she hadn't spent a lot of time with this group or with the music. I enjoyed it a lot, and now I've got to download some Ingrid Jensen for my iPod. Oh, and one of my favorite parts of the performance was a Stanley Clarke tune called "Why Wait", especially pianist Orrin Evans' burning (maybe more than) double time solo chorus. I'll be looking for the lead sheet for that tune...and perhaps some Ingrid Jensen lead sheets from her artist share website...