"The Key club is a pretty good venue. Many other soul artists have appeared there recently such as Chico Debarge and my girl, Amel Larrieux. They are promoting what is called Neo Soul with live band and music. There are 3 levels to this place - the main floor with counters l in to put your drink on and lounge type furniture to sit The dance floor is in front of the stage. The stage must be about 4 feet or so above the dance floor. There is also a balcony area above that looks down onto the stage where you can sit a table, order food and drink (booze $10 per drink) and watch the show. When they finally let people in it was well after 9 PM. You could hear old school soul music being played by the DeeJay. Finally the show starts. The host announces that Jamie Fox and Babyface and Tracy are in the house. Spotlight to balcony. Wave from above celebrities. The opening act was a lady named Daisy who happened to be celebrating her birthday. She was nervous and or had been sick so when she started to sing she had to stop the band after a few bars. She began again with a lot of encouragement from the audience. The audience by the way was a big mix of all types of ethnicities. Everyone was well represented. Unfortunately I can not remember what she sang. She covered, I think, a popular artist's song but I can't remember the song. Anyhow, she left and the tension increase because everyone wanted to see Jon B . The emcee kidded who wants to go home with Jon B tonight. Of course there was a huge response from the females in the audience. So without further adieu Jon comes on stage. The audience is wild, screaming and whooping. He is wearing a Gucci fedora, some kind of jean jacket, blue jeans with the fading in the rear worn very low, tennis shoes that buckle, and long sleeve shirt and dark shades. He looks grrrrreat of course. He sits down behind the Rhodes and starts playing. Some of the songs I can remember (not in order) are: Cool Relax, Are You Still Down- Jon rapped the Tupac part, 2 Stevie Wonder songs, All I Do and one I can't remember cause I'm not familiar with that particular song. They Don't Know (which he eluded to as being his anthem) he really got down on that song. He did some ad libbing on this one, Finer Things with N8E doing the Nas part. He sang the duet Overjoyed with a backup singer and Don't Talk. He did a little dancing on the stage showing that he can dance like a brotha. He played the hell out of the keys. At one point the house band stopped and he was playing by himself. At this concert he was Jon B the musician, more than Jon B the singer. At one point during the concert he gave some of the ladies in the audience roses. Then he gave out some more before the end. At the close he thanked Babyface and Tracy and his parents who were in the audience also. Of course he gave kudos to the audience. One thing I forgot to say is they were taping the performance and getting a lot of shots of the audience so maybe it will be shown somewhere on television. Also they announced that Jack Herrera album was being released in 2003."
--Barbara