The Jazz Voyager
Dee Felice Cafe: 529 Main Street, Covington, Kentucky / Telephone: 895 261 2365 This unobtrusive locale with New Orleans decor offers up a menu of jazz and swing Thursday thru Sunday with the Sunday jazz beginning at 5pm. The music is accompanied by great Cajun and Creole recipes straight out of New Orleans to delight your taste buds while listening. It’s all nestled right in the heart of Covington’s Main Strasse Village.
Next Stop: Macedonia! Leaving Covington, Kentucky next Saturday, I will take a short 7 minute drive across the Ohio River to the Cincinnati airport. My plane departs for Macedonia at 2:59pm from Cincinnati for a 15 hour, two stop flight in Washington, DC and Vienna before landing me in Skopje the next day at 11:50am. Then it’s off to explore the city to see the Stone Bridge, Old Town, the Millennium Cross and the Kale Fortress before renting a car and driving the 173 kilometers, approximately 2 hours to Bitola, a place known for its textiles. See you there!
The Jazz Voyager
Firehouse 12: 45 Crown Street, New Haven, Connecticut / Telephone: 203-785-0468 Fax: 203-785-0478 / Contact: Nick Lloyd. The performance space at Firehouse 12 is unique in its design. The performance space is the recording studio – and all performances happen in an acoustically balanced, soundproofed space with installed sound reinforcement and stage lighting systems. The space seats 75 audience members. The build-out of this space creates a perfect venue for music that benefits from close listening.
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A Summer Place was adapted from the Sloan Wilson novel into a 1959 film of the same name, at a time when divorce, adultery and teenage sexuality were taboo subjects and very controversial. The theme song which became a jazz standard was composed by Mack Discant and Max Steiner.
The Story: Focuses on the adult lives of two one-time teenage lovers, Ken and Sylvia, who were from different social strata. Ken was self-supporting, working as a lifeguard at a Maine island resort, while Sylvia’s family stayed as guests of the owners, one summer between years at college. After their summer love affair, they married other people, but rediscovered each other later in life. At that time, Sylvia has a son, Johnny, and Ken a daughter, Molly. While Ken and Sylvia renew their love affair, their children begin a romance.
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The Jazz Voyager
The Lighthouse: 30 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, California / Telephone: 310-376-9833 / Since the 1940’s, The Lighthouse Cafe located on Pier Plaza in Hermosa Beach, has been a haven for musicians and music lovers alike. The venue first gained popularity with the world renown jazz jam group “The Lighthouse All-Stars” called the club home. For years SoCal residents swarmed to the South Bay to take part in the west coast jazz movement and to see the talents of greats such as Buddy Guy, Miles Davis, Howard Rumsey, Chet Baker, and Shorty Rodgers swing every Sunday afternoon for Jazz Brunch, a tradition that continues today.
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Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing is a pop song that became a jazz standard with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was publicized first as the theme in the 1955 movie of the same name, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The music was commissioned for the movie and initially featured as background music. Lyrics were subsequently added to make it eligible for the Best Original Song category of the Academy Awards. From 1967 to 1973, it was used as the theme song to the television soap opera, Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, based on the movie.
The Story: Set in 1949–50 Hong Kong it tells the story of a married, but separated, American correspondent Mark Elliot (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor Han Suyin originally from China (played by Jennifer Jones). Though they find temporary happiness, she encounters prejudice from her family and ostracized from Hong Kong society. After losing her position at the hospital, Suyin and her adopted daughter go to live with a friend while Mark is on an assignment during the Korean War. They write to each other constantly.
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