Some jazz singer, Zinc Bar

Zinc Bar (Jazz Club)
Forgot the singer
Greenwich Village

So, I met up with this girl who was a composition major at Willamette before leaving and going to the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in NYC (the school whose students jam at Washington Square Park all day, keeping the chess hustlers company) and went to this jazz club called Zinc Bar in Greenwich Village. First of all, the place didn’t have a piano, but even aside from that it was a bit too classy for my taste. The jazz singer performed with a trio, and it seemed like she wrote the poems (like fake Jack Kerouac plus John Coltrane) while the pianist played some licks on his simulated Fender Rhodes. No real melodies, which was the only real engaging part, and wasn’t taken far enough to be complex and interesting–more just made up on the spot. But it’s the first jazz singer I’ve heard in years, so I’m wondering if there’s an opera in the works, collaboration between jazz singers and jazz musicians, but not a musical.