Street musicians

I don't have a video or audio clip to share but a week or so ago I was walking back to my motorcycle from a visit to Streetlight Records on the Pacific Garden Mall in Santa Cruz and there were three guys playing music on the sidewalk on an upright piano, stand up bass, and a snare with a high hat next to their ancient pickup truck in a metered parking spot and they sounded great! Pure music, free.

I once heard a black man playing sax on Fifth Ave. in Midtown of New York City. Basically it was a neverending blues with a lot of improvising. Technically he was quite good though not great. But the music that was coming out of him was incredible - dark, poweful, intense and sophisticated. Very deep. It was late evening, not many people there, I was in fact the only one who was standing there for twenty minutes or so and listening. He kept playing, maybe for hours, and could be heard from far away. Great talent.

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visiting frisco for work, just walking around the downtown area by the mall, came across 4 acapella singers, all old cats, been doing it for decades, standing there belting out old motown favorites...few of us stayed for 30min listening. just amazing what they were doing...