Jazz At Bander A Jazz Performance - 716 Words

Jazz at Bandera On Wednesday night I attended a jazz performance at Bandera restaurant in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Bandera has a jazz performance every weekdnights, and a band named â€Å"The Marbles† were playing on that magnificent night. The best songs I really enjoyed during the performance were â€Å"Embraceable You,† by Nat King Ko, â€Å"She is Funny that Way,† by Billy Holiday, and â€Å"Everybody Needs Somebody,† by Jimmy Scott. Although I arrived a little late, I was able to find a cozy place at the bar close to the stage. When the band arrived they wasted no time and got ready to set up their equipment and got ready to play some music. They first connected the piano and brought out the bass. The band consisted of three members. I tried to Google names of the band members but with so many results coming up I wasn’t able to pin point which name belonged to whom. But that didn’t have any effect on what was about to happen on the stage. By getting a quick glance at the performers, two of them looked to be of Asian heritage while the bass player looked white, and more or less appeared to be the band leader as well. The type of music they played was American jazz-standards. After everything was set, the band started playing and a deadly silence just began hunting everyone at the tables. After a few songs the band started playing the band leader introduced the marvelous Billy Valentine, who is a singer and songwriter. With and amazing energy throughout the whole night, the band started