Coral Gables Concert Report

Jazz Concert Review

On Saturday 28th I went to The Globe Café in Coral Gables, I got there with my brother exactly at 8pm and sat on a high table just in front of the band. We got there just before they started playing and stayed for the whole first session that was just over an hour. The Café was real nice, It wasn’t far from where I live and there was no traffic coming in, it is situated in a very nice part of Coral Gables just two blocks from Miracle Mile, that was perfect because parking was amazing, I parked in front of the place. The Café was real nice, it had a bar and about 11 eleven tables (later when I went to the bathroom I realized it had a whole other bar and lounge area on the back). The Globe was very pleasant, the bar area
But when they started it was just the right volume, you could still talk to the person in your table. The band was formed by four musicians, Rodolfo Zuniga on the drums, Dave Fernandez on the Saxophone, Dave Siegel on the Piano and Josh Allen on the bass, later another musician joined in with his
They first played “True Crime” that is an original from the piano player Dave Siegel. Then the second tune was a Pat Metheny composition called “Amid-6”. Pat an American jazz guitarist and composer; his style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-bop, Latin jazz and Jazz Fusion [1]. But one song I really enjoyed, and even my brother told me he liked this one, was the third song the band played called “I Love You” that is an old jazz tune by Cole Porter, he wrote it in 1944 for his stage musical “Mexican Hayride”. Bing Crosby popularized the song in the same year and Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Bill Evans and John Coltrane have also recorded