You will have to give a rundown of the show because I am seeing them on the 16th!
In one word impressive. Probably the best show outside the jazz idiom that i attended this year.
I'll tell you more later.
First of all the first act was a very fine band called the Budos http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/...nd-st2005.shtml
Quite frankly i already had my money's worth with this band.
Now regarding the main act. Well, they started with the soul routine with the DapKings playing instrumentals and then a MC comes singing a few songs and then introduces the singer. Once she enters the scene you get yourself into a zone of non-stop grooving, funk action with a lady who is way way way way in a better physical shape than i am.
The first songs however did use some gimmickery that i could live without, first song she invited a male spectator to dance with her, second song she sang about girl's attitude and invited some girls who attended the show to strut their stuff on stage. One of the girls was so drunk she went on the stage with two bottles of beer and her bag, Jones had to tell her to drop her bottles then her bag, the lady quickly went away. The third song she asked people to do the chorus.
Fortunately after that things stepped up a notch, music was tighter, more intense and to watch Jones constantly dancing in a frenetic way and singing at the top of her lungs at the same time was a mighty impressive scene. I'm not familiar with her materiel so i won't do a song by song report.
She, as an encore, granted us a beautiful rendition of It's a man's man's man's world