All That Jazz

We saw a fabulous jazz singer tonight. She brought her four month old baby to the performance and walked around during intermission with the baby on her hip, talking to the audience and charming everyone. During quiet songs you could sometimes hear the baby fussing as she was being rocked backstage. I alternate between thinking this was incredibly wonderful and completely inappropriate. How glad I am that motherhood and singerhood aren't exclusive in our wonderful world, and how disturbing it is to think that that baby wasn't home asleep!