After the cheapest linch ever, I knocked odd Museo de los Conceptos, an old convent that the Banco Central funded a restoration for. It shows the life of a nun and exhibits colonial (religious) art. After arranging a flight back to Quito for Thirsday (I will have done enouh buses by then), I went for a walk dow Calle Larga to the Banco Central Museum. It is really great, maybe even better than the one in Quito. I learned a lot about the differences between the peoples of the different regions, their customs and beliefs. Outside are the ruins of Pumapongo, an important second Capital for the Incan leader. It was already in ruins when the Spanish got here, due to tribal uprisings.
In the evening, I went to La Vina restaurant to see what the Cuenca Jazz Society was about. I hunkered down with the menu and chatted with an expat ex-teacher from NC, who had just moved here threee months ago. He explained quite a bot about his experience getting his "cedula" in just seven weeks. The jazz was great...an American piano player, who apparently is teaching these young ecuadorians. The rhythm section was very tight. The flute and guitar were reading the black dots.
Another expat named John, from New Orleans, arrived to play congas. I was eventually steered down the street to meet a harmonica-playing German named Silvio in a bar called "Far Out". He was a green harp player, but when we traded licks he put his harp down and started pouring the beers...homebrewed and on tap at his little club. His claim to fame is that on his hard drive, he has over 15,000 rock and roll and blues tracks. You name and he has it. I tested him with The Dirty Blues Band (18 yr old Rod Piazza) and he had it.
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