In the USA you can travel a great distance.
Where do you arrive?
A surreal jazz club with an eye for a sun!
This is where Nat Cole wanted to take us! To a small stage, with three other musicians, him at the piano (notably not singing) and some Dada flower/sun/eyeballs shining at us behind some silhouettes and in front of rectangular abstractions.
Unsettling symbols + abstract art. Jazz music - vocals or words.
That was the first iteration of the Nat King Cole show.
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