The Pickering Village Jazz Festival is an event I’ve attended for eight years in a row, and nothing was going to stop me from checking out the 2011 “Jam.”

Generally, Ajax hosts a three-day Jazz festival in the village; but due to construction this year, the town only held a one-day event – and despite early morning showers, the sun finally made its appearance in the late afternoon.

Sometimes I think I should have been born in the 1940′s, when swing and jazz owned the airwaves.  Nothing quite gets under my skin like Sinatra’s witchcraft, his wicked witchcraft.