Tiredness and allergy attack aside, I would have wanted to stay if Kristen continued to play solo, or just with Bird, who blended with her very well. When Howe stepped it, it was like being witness to a very bad jam session, where the musicians seriously failed to find the groove. I wondered why they thought we wanted to witness such a painful experience.

Bird made the comment in the beginning of the concert that they have been, "playing each other's music, and it has been getting increasingly bizarre." Bizarre isn't what I would have called the combined efforts of Hersch, Bird and Howe. Disjointed and horrible would have been more the word for it. I was more displeased with the concert than ronebofh, and I'm generally very tolerant of times when musician flounder, because my children are musicians. But I kept waiting for what I would have considered talent in Howe Gelb and his band, and I just couldn't find it.