Dixieland duende in Dupont Circle. June 25, 2007 7:40pm

It's 3:30am on Tuesday. Got home a little more than an hour ago after hanging out at Ozio after my gig at Cafe Citron. My original intention was just to pop in for five minutes, pay my respects to my fellow artists and catch the last train home. But of course things didn't go as planned.

Anywayz, earlier that evening I arrived at the Dupont Circle metro station and as I traveled up the escalator to the street level, I heard the familiar sound of Dixieland. There's this one group of brass musicians that gets together pretty often here and they usually draw a nice size crowd. I was kinda hoping against it, cuz I had my sound system in tow and didn't feel like having to push my way through a tightly packed audience with all my equipment.

I got caught up in the energy of the music and ended up spending a few minutes enjoying the show and as I took some photos, I noticed the band leader, playing trombone, was in a very spiritual state. As far as I'm concerned, he was experiencing a moment of duende. Maybe they use another term in Dixieland, but call it what you want--I saw what I saw and felt what I felt.

Of course, I was under a bit of a time constraint being that it was already 7:45pm-ish and I like to arrive at Citron and have my sound system setup by 8:00pm so I can chill out awhile before the show. So I quickly snapped off a few pics before rushing off. Take a look...