A Good Groove

A friend emails of a tantalizing upcoming gig in my neighborhood:

Stanley Clarke is playing Blues Alley with Lenny White and this amazing young Japanese fusion piano player named Hiromi.

Also, this evening my younger son, who is around a year old, requested some music (pointing toward Bose). I put on some decent kiddie folk. You know, acoustic guitars, songs about friends, that kind of thing. Not much reaction. Then, on the advice of my older son, I switched to Michael Jackson: “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough.” Everybody, including the little guy, started freaking out, dancing. A good groove is universal.