N.T.B. at Joe Henderson Lab, May 16, 2024

SFJAZZ presents N.T.B. (Nature of the Beast), playing Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters
Joe Henderson Lab
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:00 PM, Thursday, May 16, 2024

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[7:14 PM] {NTB is already playing as we're finally allowed to enter}

1. [7:14 PM] Chameleon
2. [7:22 PM] Watermelon Man
   [7:37 PM] {Greetings from GW; band introduction]
3. [7:39 PM] (unidentified)
4. [7:47 PM] (untitled original: eat your veggies!)
   [7:58 PM] {GW banter}
5. [7:58 PM] Butterfly
   [8:06 PM] {GW: Time's up? OK, one more…}
6. [8:07 PM] Cantaloupe Island
   [8:12 PM] {show ends}

• Brandon Farmer: drums;
• Jelani Newsome-Noble: piano, Nord Stage 6 keyboard;
• Josh Parada: guitar;
• Gerald Williams: 5-string bass.

PG&E power outages in the SOMA & Civic Center around 5 PM did a real number on traffic: what would normally be a short trip took us over an hour because every intersection was a stop-and-go nightmare. Over twenty minutes for us to go the last mile to the venue: we could have walked there faster!

In any case, we arrived at SFJAZZ only to find out that they weren't letting anyone in, and didn't have any idea when power was going to be back. Oh that's just great! Now we're stuck in SF! Happily, when we parked, I'd noticed that RT Rotisserie was still running (they still had power, presumably because they're right next door to SF Fire Station #36), so we walked back there to get a quick dinner. Thirty to 45 minutes later, the traffic lights were powered up again, so we returned to SFJAZZ.

Power was now on, but they still weren't letting anybody in, so there was a huge crowd gathered around the corner and spilling onto Fell Street. Around 7:05 PM an SFJAZZ staffer announced that folks attending the NTB show should come around to the Franklin street entrance, so we hustled around the corner and inside, where they queued us up, checked our tickets, and then made us wait another 10 minutes before opening the house. Such confusion! It was obvious that the house wasn't prepared for this sort of problem!!

Anyways, my only complaint was that we missed the start of Chameleon, but without any sort of formal start to the event on account of the power outage, that's not even small potatoes. Props to N.T.B. for rolling with the punches and putting on a good show!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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