Blue (Note) in Green (Mill)–A Screenplay
Cut to still of Green Mill Jazz Club, with poster showing it to be the regular weekly showcase for both artists–Elling on Wednesdays, Barber on Sundays and Mondays.
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Scene 3: A seedy hot dog stand in Bucktown. Enter MIKE FRIEDMAN, founder and president of Premonition Records–Barber’s Chicago-based recording label–to rendezvous with a local journalist, M.L. HENCKEN.
Hencken: Blue Note Records? The New York label that already records Kurt Elling?
Guild: What a great idea, to record both these guys live.
Guild: Well, if they hadn’t used so many at that Starbucks on Sheffield…
Fan 2: And Jon Hendricks tonight? Unbelievable. I never thought I’d get to see him in person; I figured the closest I’d ever get was those old Lambert, Hendricks & Ross albums from the 50s….