The,Grumpy,Guide,London,Jazz,B entertainment The Grumpy Guide to London Jazz Bands
Know your event objective. If the aim of the event is to educate people then the entertainment is not the key element of the event. You would do better to use some light form of entertainment during the break to help attendees unwind and rel Music is a vast sea and there are lots of singers in the world who earn so much fame because of their singing, voice and style and Rob Thomas is one of them. He is one of the best singers whose songs become very popular and he has great fan
Now I like music as much as the next person, whether it'spop, folk, country and western or even a good old fashioned brass band, I'llhappy sit for up to an hour listening to any of the above being played eitherlive or recorded. But one thing I just don't get is jazz and living in London,we have more than our fair share of jazz bands as much as we have more than ourfair share of jazz fans. People who claim to like this style of music (and Iuse that term loosely) tend to sit there attentively listening as if attendinga lecture on thermodynamics, rubbing their chins intently as if it in some wayhelps them to better absorb the complex information their brain is receiving.I, on the other hand just hear a bunch of people playing different tunes indifferent time signatures and more often than not, they're all playing in adifferent key too! Call me ignorant, butisn't a band supposed to play in the same time signature and the same key,following the same chord progressions? Unfortunately for me a large portion of my social circle aremassive fans of jazz, which means that much of our socialising revolves aroundthe London jazz scene. When out socialising, we inevitably end up in one ofLondons many jazz clubs and every time I try my best to find somethingpleasurable in the discordant cacophony which is invading my ears. Those aroundme however, tend discuss things such as how imaginative the guitar player wasin his approach the the middle eight; saying things along the lines of, 'hebuilt up a melody around the major third of the harmonic fifth whilstsuppressing the dominant ninth... genius!'. To me it sounded like theso-called guitar player simply misplayed a C chord. In defence of theguitarist, it's easy to get it wrong when the rest of the band are all playingcompletely different things! One thing about jazz fans is they way they concoctall this flowery language to defend the mistakes these jazz bands all too oftenmake. Recently I was invited to the wedding reception of a coupleof friends. Although I knew much of the 'jazz crowd' would also be inattendance, I felt I could rest assured that out of all the wedding bandsLondonhas too offer, they'd choose something in the middle of the road rather thanthe avant guard jazz bands they all too often listen too. After all the brideand groom would be aiming to entertain friends and family of all ages sosomething as niche as jazz would certainly be out of the question.Unfortunately I couldn't have been more wrong, as out of all the wedding bandsLondon has to offer, who did they book? You guessed it, a jazz band! The onlyconsolation this time was that I wasn't the only person who retreated to thelounge bar to avoid the cacophonous train wreck of a sound the band soskilfully achieved.
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