Jon Hendricks and Co. performed at Pick as the last stop on a three week tour. The tour hit Universities and selected high school that offer jazz vocal programs. He wishes to bring jazz back to the young because without them there is no future. For that reason he is excited about such artists as Branford Marsalis and Harry Conick jr. who are bringing jazz and big band music back to the forefront. Hendricks hopes that among President Clinton's changes, he will restore art funding to the school system.
Art softens the sensitivities and widens the perceptions.
Venus is the only planet that can calm Mars down. He has met a lot of people in his travels, may at Ronny Scott's club in England, and he has never met a good artist, from Robin Williams to Dali, to actor Paul Schofield, who doesn't like jazz. A large portion of Saturday's show focused on the history of jazz. After running through a couple of Count Basie numbers, Hendricks sent the rest of the singers offstage while he performed a little jazz poem, punctuated with song, chronicling the history of jazz and its musicians. Besides the lovely poem which held the audience in rapture, he mimicked a penny whistle and upright bass in his songs to such perfection that he left the crowd stunned.