Day 2

Another good day in NYC. Beautiful day, sunny,warm but much cooler than the day before. The day got off to a late start. We got up at noon. We needed the rest! We headed out to Corona, Queens to go visit the house of the famous trumpeter Louis Armstrong which is now a museum. It was very very cool. Queens is a neat place. A lot of and I mean a lot of musicians lived there in the day: Tony Bennett, Cannonball and Nat Adderley,Jimmy Heath, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie etc. and thats just the ones that I can remember. The house was gorgeous. Lucielle, Louis' wife was way way ahead of her time with the way she decorated the place and the way she had all of these things custom built. Its a must if you come to NYC. The tour lasted about 45 minutes and we looked around for another 15 minutes. Well worth the 60 minute train ride out there.

We then ventured back into the city in search of a movie theatre. World Trade Center opened yesterday. An interesting choice for us to go and see this movie in the middle of NYC. It was good. Very very dark for obvious reasons but I think Oliver Stone did an admirable job.

Got back to the house around 8:30 and then Alana, Spliffy and I went for dinner and called it a night. Thats it!