The dearest

And you’re involved

He didn’t write love letters. But he did write a lot of beautiful emails. But letters, no. He had thought of something better. My love communicated with CDs. We were in the exploration phase. Cautiously flirting and such. And then he would occasionally slip a CD into my bag. Self-burned. The first was ‘So lucky to be loving you’ by Chet Baker. Then you already know where it ends: in infinity in our case. Then followed ‘The look of love’, sung by Dusty Springfield. Exactly how I love to hear the song. How did he know that?

We moved on. CDs didn’t need to be slipped into my bag anymore because that CD rack was communal. And now we have Sonos and Spotify. The instruments may have changed, but the music remained. I was giving birth to Miles Davis’ ‘Kinda blue’ and we danced around the room to ‘Let’s get lost’.

Jazz became our great love. So great that my beloved suddenly organized the Evening of Jazz Music. In Carré. He booked Trijntje Oosterhuis, Alain Clark, Yuri Honing, and the Metropole Orchestra to play all those beautiful songs. For a full house. But when ‘So lucky to be loving you’ plays, I can’t help but think that it’s also a little bit meant for me.

Moral of this love epic: there are still a number of tickets available. So are you coming? Many famous friends will be there to say something about the music. We sing, dance, and listen and then we will have a really, really, really good time together. Because that, dear people, is what jazz music is meant for.

Ticket sales for the Evening of Jazz Music on Friday, January 26 at the Royal Theater Carré have now started. Tickets are available via www.carre.nl, the box office of Carré, and 0900-25 25 255 (€0.45 p/m).