With a reasonably fresh breeze these days, the terrace was cool enough to sit and people watch and being at the end of the paseo from all the sunset bars, there are processions of people just after dark.
The food was as fab as ever - a first for Jaki, she tried some of my baby eels in garlic and chilli without me having to pretend they were bean sprouts - and we sipped lashings of ice cold Mocen Rueda wine.
The real point of this post is that we went for after dinner snifters to the Villa Mercedes where Ibiza based Austrian saxophonist Muriel Grossman was live on stage. I'd never seen her before and I never knew she could sing. She has a great voice for Bossa Nova, and also played some classic trax - A Night in Tunisia by Charlie Parker, and at my request, St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins the 'Saxophone Colossus.'
Eagle eyed readers will notice that Muriel plays a vintage Conn 6M alto sax, which I believe was Bird's chosen instrument until he had that plastic one made! How about that then?
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