I Could Write A Book from SD Airport

From March 2012. Rosemary Watson with Mikan Zlatkovich, Bill Andrews and Russell Bizzett. Back in 2012, one of SD's most beloved music producer's, Loren Smith, invited us to play at the airport's baggage claim. Sounds funny cause it is and was, but also completely romantic. Tired travelers and hot swingin' jazz musicians to welcome men, women and children, to the greatest, classiest city on the planet. Among the setlist was "I Could Write a Book," a tune born in 1940 from the brilliant, cynical minds of Rodgers and Hart for the musical Pal Joey. Originally sung by a charming anti-hero trying to sweet-talk an idealistic young woman, it’s a song about manufactured romance and grand declarations. How fitting, then, to perform a song about writing a book in a place where everyone is trapped in their own transient, unwritten chapters. We played it with all the sly elegance it deserved, offering a moment of high art to an audience mostly wondering if they left their laptops at the security checkpoint. A Note on the State of the Art: Jazz has always lived in the margins—moving from smoky underground clubs to the sterile, fluorescent glow of Terminal 2. It’s a hilarious sort of dignity, but the music still swings just the same.