If you remember one word tonight, remember the word “funk.”

Last night I took my girlfriend to see saxophone player (formerly lead sax for James Brown and Prince I believe) Maceo Parker at B.B. King’s in Times Square. I had never been to a jazz/funk concert so I considered it a learning experience. Here is what I learned:

-Jazz/funk is not my favorite kind of music, but I love the style of jazz musicians. Suits while playing music is how I would want to play music.

– There is always one white guy in the band and he almost always plays keyboards.

– I feel like some jazz musicians are like church goers who “talk in tongues.” I know you are “feeling” something, but are all the pained faces and shocked looks at different notes really necessary? The two best examples where one; the way Maceo (who is outstanding) would stare at his microphone after he played a note as if the microphone had stolen something and two; the way the male backup singer, who did not have a hugely active role vocally, would make up for it with a barrage of faces, finger snaps and surprised looks.

-Playing music professionally looks like an awesome experience. That is why since I only tell jokes and can’t sing or play I want to tell jokes professionally. I think it will be a similar experience.

– I saw someone at the show that I know and he told me that comedy must be going well because I was at the show with a fly ass honey. I already knew that before the show, but I asked the guy to take his vocabulary from 1991 and update it.

– Jazz songs typically have 8-10 lyrics total and in the case of Maceo Parker they all revolve around the funk and either having it or feeling it.

It was in fact a great night out so thank you to Maceo and LB.