In the few minutes before this grand opening at that angular room of glass, wood & concrete with New York's 65th & Broadway as its surround backdrop, I thought, "How sweet it is to be loved by you..."

This room, on the Lincoln Center campus, looks and smells like my boss (& mentor) Marcus Samuelsson, but also, it sounds like me.

[see my cover photo to see the room - or go to 65th & Broadway]

Special thanks to Marc Smooth the best relay race teammate ever. The batons you pass to me are made of mahogany and gold.

[looking up, far, and wide]

Thank you


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/business/marcus-samuelsson-both-a-chef-and-a-brand.html


The Look Of Love - Dorothy Ashby
Take 5 - Carmen McRae
Bye-Ya - Thelonious Monk
Not Enough Mama - Horace Silver
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
New York, New York - Duke Ellington
Love Me Or Leave Me - Nina Simone
I Got A Woman - Ray Charles
Ain't That Peculiar - George Benson
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher - Otis Redding
Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry
Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
What'd I Say? - Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis Featuring Norah Jones
Harmonica Man - Stevie Wonder
Twistin' the Night Away - Sam Cooke
Soul Bossanova - Skeewiff
I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
Running Down A Dream - Tom Petty
Stepping Out - Joe Jackson
Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
My Sharona - The Knack
It's Still Rock & Roll To Me - BIlly Joel
Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder
Get Ready - Rare Earth
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (Reflex)
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince (Dimtri From Paris)
Uptown - Prince
I Feel For You - Chaka Kahn
I Used To Feel Alright - Marvin Gaye
I Was A Teenage DJ - Greg Wilson
Feel Reel - Illvester (Kon)
I Want Your Love - Chic (Dimitri)
Forever Came Today - Jackson 5 (Frankie Knuckles)
Can You Feel It - The Jacksons
On The Radio - Res
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac (Psychemagik)
Harlem - Bill Withers
See Line Woman - Nina Simone the Songstress (Jerome)
S.I.L.U. - Karizma
Peaceful Island Life - Nickodemus
Horse With No Name - America
Ain't Got No/I Got Life - Nina Simone
Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini
Salsastion - David Shire
What'd I Say? - Ray Charles (Lovegroove)

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