Last night I watched Joe Hen­ry at a dinner/​jazz club called the Dako­ta here in Min­neapo­lis. The venue took a lit­tle while to get used to — I am a lit­tle weird­ed out by music need­ing din­ner to make it an event — but once I set­tled in the show was real­ly amaz­ing. I’ve been real­ly into Joe Hen­ry as a pro­duc­er for years but nev­er real­ly lis­tened to his work as an artist, and now that I’ve seen him live I feel like I have catch­ing up to do. It was a pow­er­ful show.

After the show I snuck towards the stage to say hi to and basi­cal­ly fawn over drum­mer Jay Bellerose, whose play­ing and gen­er­al atti­tude towards music has been real­ly inspir­ing to me over the years. I told him as much and the result­ing con­ver­sa­tion did very lit­tle to change that.

What I am try­ing to say is that last night was a pret­ty good night.