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I'm pretty regularly updating our photo albums, so remember to click on the photos link to have a look! There are some new ones there from our recent walk in some hills south of Zurich, some pics of our new flat, some random shots of our life in Zurich, plus lots from our time in Slovakia. Enjoy!

Zürich and all that jazz

On friday night, we boogied our way through performances by the Nils Landgren Funk Unit, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Maceo Parker at the Zürich International Jazznojazz Festival. Whew! After some funky tunes and a short rendition of Ghostbusters (since the guitarist for the NLFU is Ray Parker Jr, who recorded the original), the Nils Landgren Funk Unit had us swaying our hips and grooving for nearly two hours. Thinking it couldn't get much better, we were then treated to the amazing voice and theatrical presence of Sharon Jones, who's a modern-day cross between Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin. She was awesome! Then to top it off, we experienced nearly two hours of Maceo Parker and his impressive Sax (and not-so-impressive flute). After the first two awesome performances, however, we couldn't help but feel that Maceo and his crew were sort of going through the motions. They were pretty good though, and we went home completely exhausted.

Nils Landgren Funk Unit

Maceo Parker