Gentei Kaijo at Arlene's Grocery

Gentei Kaijo hosts a jazz jam entitled “The Lesson” at Arlene’s Grocery every Thursday night. Few stages remain open to the jazz jam, where any unexpected combination of musicians are welcomed to improvise music, but in tonight’s jam, musicians in the audience were invited onto the stage for some spontaneity. Tonight, the rhythm section provided a funk bottom, the keyboardist merged modern electronic sounds and the singer I caught introduced hip hop vocals. I do not know how late this ran, but it seemed like anything musical could happen at these Thursday night jams.