Frankfurt

....was good. Great venue and crew, good sellout crowd. The concert was simulcast on Frankfurt radio, apparently in Dolby surround. Also, I got a chance to see the Gaudi Unseen show at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, which is quite a good document of the ongoing construction of the Sagrada Familia. In an unrelated note, I was totally smitten by these awesome Saab ethanol concept station wagons that the company (being one of the Jazz Festival's corporate sponsors this year) lent to the festival for shuttling the artists to and from the venue. Absolutely fantastic, and maddeningly unavailable in North America. Anyway, a few video stills:

From top: Rick and Jamie at soundcheck, the hall- (Hessischen Rundfunk) and the audience view of soundcheck.