There was a great vocal jazz concert this evening in Opperman, featuring the twenty-voice "After Five" vocal group and Leon Anderson's small jazz combo (not together). Leon even sat in on a few tunes to show off his rockin' drum acrobatics.

• Soloists who aren't plagued with thirty-second note envy
• Solos with a tune and a direction
• A good bari sax player
• Trumpeters who can sound like they're playing flugelhorn
• Small group jazz vocals
• Unpretentious solos
• Closed position vocals planing chromatically
• Male soloists that don't come off as cheap lounge singers
• Fun tunes
• The font

• When a concert is an hour too long because everyone solos on every song
• When the bass player goes harmonically kooky in his solo
• Songs obviously written just for soloing
• The fact that there are no male soloists that don't come off as cheap lounge singers
• Drum solos that go for more than a phrase
• Clapping after every single solo like it's the State of the Union address
• Singers who just don't have that definitive quality of voice for jazz vocals but still do it
• Male soloists who can't dance trying to dance, or male soloists that don't know what to do with their hands and look like Eminem on uppers
• Male soloists doing anything by Gershwin
• Hell, any male singer singing live outside of an ensemble setting.