...some jazz fans might have made the drive all the way from Hartford, Wallace Stevens' hometown, to attend Festival 9 in 1986, since attendance continues on the rise. Ramon Fernandez might have come up from the Keys. The Pocono Jazz Quartet plays this year, along with Katchie Cartwright and Richie and Kate Roche. The Mo Rolland Band is on this year's bill, plus the Mark Hamza Quartet. Al Cohn and George Young are guest soloists with the COTA Cats, and JARO's looking sharp in their tuxedos on the stand, posing for the program photo.

And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song.