luciana souza @ yoshi’s

Luciana Souza is amazing. We (Geoff, Livia, Vienna, Jim, Roy, Jay, Brandi, and I) went to Yoshi’s last night to hear her last set. I’m no expert when it comes to Brazilian-influenced jazz, but I was really impressed with the purity of her voice and her ability to use her voice as an instrument (rapid-fire! perfect intonation!). Romero, her guitarist, was amazing as well. Jim kept saying that it looked as if his fingers had evolved in response to being used to play the guitar.

Luciana was one of the soloists in Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasion Segun San Marcos, which we toured as part of the West Coast premiere in 2002.

It was good to see Jay. He’s here singing in John Adams’ Doctor Atomic, and had invited me to go see the dress rehearsal tonight. I had planned to go, but I am a total wreck. By the way, if you have never seen Jay’s website, you should go check out some of his stories. They’re funny.

Also in this set of photos: accompanying a shopping trip for girly things with Vienna and Livia, and Livia’s awesome Korean food.

Livia's kalbi

Livia prepares yummy kalbi

Livia's kalbi

"liv love eat." Very appropriate!

Vienna Teng, excited over the "blue whale" bag

Vienna Teng and Livia Sohn on the streets of San Francisco

Vienna Teng and Livia Sohn at DSW

Eric Cheng, and Vienna Teng's new shoes

With Vienna Teng at DSW

Me, with Livia

Livia and Vienna shop for shoes

Livia Sohn, shoe enthusiast

My freaky red eye, which happened after a crazy weekend in New York

Luciana Souza at Yoshi's!

Roy, Geoff, and Livia at Yoshi's

Eric, Jim, and Vienna at Yoshi's

Geoff, Luciana, and Livia (we all played in Osvaldo Golijov's Passion) -- Luciana was one of the soloists.