From the depths of the internet, Rough Francis, ladies and gentlemen.

It’s probably going to take several posts to get all this across, since we have so much going on this weekend, not to mention blogging about the incredible visitation from the paradise that is northwestern Quebec that happened on Friday (more on this later).  I’ll start with my excitement about the jazz show we have coming up on SATURDAY.

We’re lucky to be hosting the mi3, a very very excellent jazz trio from the Boston area.  The show is on Saturday, at the Firehouse Gallery.  Come to have your ears tickled!

We feel lucky about it, because ever so often, we get some great jazz shows.  It all began when Greg Davis was out of town and so asked us to present the Vandermark 5. That’s the Chicago-based group of the brilliant Ken Vandermark.  They totally blew us away, and even better, they keep sending all their other projects, and their side projects, and their friend’s projects, back to us.

They are all super nice guys, but our favorite might be Tim Daisy….an excellent drummer and teller of old-timey jazz stories (”you know what Dizzy Gillespie always used to say, etc etc”).

The mi3 are doing a little Northeast tour, bringing their fresh foundations in free jazz and blending them with their interest in rock music.  I was pleased to read that they had a residency at the Abbey Lounge in Somerville (well, I think it’s exactly right on the Cambridge/Somerville line), a scruffy little rock club and in fact one of my affectionate favorites in the Boston area.  Check them out! I don’t go see jazz very often, but when I do, good jazz, and especially free jazz, freshens up my mind in a way that nothing else really does.

So come on Saturday and get your ears massaged by jazz!  Get a new perspective on all that rock music you listen to!  Hear some people who are in command of their instruments!  They’re planning to make lots of noise!