Jazz for aficionados
Mary Jo a ?schubert, with all due respect to you and other soldiers here, let’s not talk about NATO. But as for Croatian hating Serbs and vice versa, if you exclude people who were affected by the recent war very badly (small part of Croatia), I dare to say it’s more propaganda than anything else. Propaganda from the authorities - that reaches it’s peak for instance and mostly during some election period (you know how that works - it serves only to heat up the atmosphere, to bring out the lowest passions in order to manipulate with the crowd. Crowd is so easy to manipulate. Especially if the crowd is hungry, meaning being with low income and other basic things without which is one’s life unbearable) And of course, there are always people who, by the default, hate anything that is different, but generally speaking, if you put this aside, nobody hates anybody in a raw way that others might see as it. It’s a special mixture of love and hate that you could only understand if you have lived here. We have food from Serbia on the shelves of our local stores, we have people from Serbia who have their jobs here in Croatia, during summer season, we have guests from Serbia and most of all, many Croatians are crazy for Serbian turbo folk music. For instance, few days ago, Serbian turbo folk star had grand concert here in Croatia, in capital city Zagreb. It was crazy there, the interest for the concert was huge, the star had to organize one more concert the day after! Check this link - at 6:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRWGZ_giemI But, on the other side, check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPBlQMVsjic The same city! Maybe even the same people. On the concert of a "patriotic singer" who promotes fascism and whose most famous song starts with the official salute of the Ustaše, the Croatian Nazi ally of the World War II Axis forces and whose concerts were banned in some European countries. So, ain’t we crazy Balkanian people? |
After those clips....its hard to say anything,ha,ha.... Or better, perhaps,no problem, (just) get me to the flight.... ...for Denmark? Duke Pearson https://youtu.be/KIQVjK13PzI ...'No problem'...same first tune.... Duke Pearson and Chet Baker https://youtu.be/E95STK2tnoM |
Below is the soundtrack to "Bullitt" staring Steve McQueen; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUo9ogmtBoU&list=PLE8CE30B5153C0A8D Calling "West Coast" jazz "Cool Jazz" is inappropriate for me, East Coast is cool at times. Maybe it's because I can readily identify "West Coast" jazz, and "Bullitt" is definitively West Coast jazz at it's best. (it's on order) "The Hustler" about pool sharks "like Minnesota Fats"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnzYdDR5Ls&list=OLAK5uy_lCAkFoLhRUiMcbcsTF3RktRgIVI_5M4s0 This one is for you Mary-Jo; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA81pRYtEXc |
