Jazz for aficionados
I used to be a baker. Mornings when it was my turn to mix, I’d have a couple hours to enjoy working alone, before the other guys showed up. One such morning, I was playing Jack DeJohnette’s "Tin Can Alley" when my boss and his girlfriend (not Jazz fans) walked in. First thing she said : "It sounds like they’re all playing different songs". Never made sense to me but then, I wasn’t hearing it through her ears.
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I used to own a bar once. During winter weekdays when there was less people and if I wanted to go home earlier, I would play some jazz music, usually the people would just left their drinks unfinished and just leave. On other occasions, I would put some Chet Baker concert, both on screen and on speakers, just to see the reaction. Even the regulars, more girls than boys, would come and ask for the change of music. Often, they would say that they simply cant endure so much sorrow, which is interesting. No matter how ’sad’ the music was, I would first think of it as ’beautiful’. No need to say that soon I changed my music menu, for the sake of better profit. But, even in the major cities, jazz bars are rare, or there is a lot other music there, with jazz sometimes included...just crossed my mind, back in a day, there was a jukebox in one popular bar that I went often, because the owner wanted for customers to pay for the music...to my surprise, I found out that jukebox had a Led Zeppelin concert and on it was a ’dazed and confused’ song that lasts some 25min...I would play it and went for a walk, 20 minuts later, the bar would be empty...first they removed the cd and not long after the jukebox was gone too...when I think of it, some jazz would cause the same effect, but with less noise |
Thanks for sharing, Alex and Stuart . Times change. Jazz changes. Sometimes for the good. Sometimes not. Sometimes a reboot seems appropriate: https://youtu.be/IBpaSIkmNPU?si=-yfUFhzsNIgrPzeC Where is Rok2id anyway?
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I was watching a "reaction video" yesterday by a guy who looked to be in his early thirties. He was reacting to a video from the Fillmore of the Allmans (original line-up) playing "Whipping Post". Not Jazz, but what did he say, among other things? "It sounds like they’re each playing a different song". Looks like we have a running theme, here ... Lovely Pass/Fitzgerald duet, BTW.
I can relate, to a point. Even though I enjoy sad music, some of it can be too much for me, sometimes, depending upon my mood. |
