Tuesday morning Joel left, Tuesday night Julie went to the women's world cup soccer game in the rain, and James and I went to the Jazz concert.

The four-piece band came from the Lincoln Center in New York. They had been traveling all over giving concerts and masters classes on Jazz. James and I got to go and help out- James watched the instruments while I went with them all to dinner. I even helped translate a little which helped me realize how lacking my Chinese really is. Sometimes even with language translation you still can't get things done in China.... but even inspite of the rain and the outdoor venue, the crowd loved it- old and young. Jazz is really new here and the government is leary of it, like people were of Rock N Roll in the 1950's. Really interesting.

The music was fantastic!!! Everyone of the musicians had been a previous band leader for this tour before- except for Eli, the pianists- he just teaches music. So this was an all star tour of all the best guys.