Jazz famous at last!
Well, sort of. At least for writing about jazz, if not singing it. Or rather: writing about singing it.
The American website jazz.com has just put up a fluffy piece I wrote for them about my experience out here, from the musical side of things. It’s on their homepage today - click below or read it here.
As you will see, I’ve already been attacked for my take on the ubiquitous Michael Buble. Oops.
March 18th, 2008 at 5.21pm
You know? I still don’t think I’ve heard a Mickey Bubble song. Until reading that little exchange, I didn’t even know he was (disputedly) included in the Jazz ranks. Not that much Jazz gets played on Radio 4; this could be the root problem.
Although there is the occasional attempt to paint Kenneth Clarke as a not grey politician. (I once saw Kenneth Clarke free-wheeling on a shopping trolley in a Nottingham supermarket whilst his wife decided on brand of coffee).
March 18th, 2008 at 5.53pm
that last parenthetical statement would make a great opening line for a jazz classic.
I once saw Kenneth Clarke free-wheeling on a shopping trolley
in a Nottingham supermarket whilst his wife decided on some coffee
I tried to warn him he must stop but his wife just said fuck off he….
please continue the song at will
March 18th, 2008 at 5.53pm
can i say that on here?
March 18th, 2008 at 6.04pm
sighed: for a lady who works in Oxfam such words ain’t good enough
March 18th, 2008 at 6.11pm
but the heart attack was lurking behind the smoker’s cough
oooh, I like that.
March 18th, 2008 at 8.53pm
And now, back to the music …
March 18th, 2008 at 9.59pm
Pete, I can just imagine you ’singing’ this in the style of ‘Checkout Girl’…
March 18th, 2008 at 10.37pm
yes, i’ve already put the smokers cough line down in my little book
March 19th, 2008 at 1.52am
I think the dex fellow might be Malaysian
Thank you for educating Penang, the musicians and paving the way for R and I at G Spot. Glad you are getting recognition for it on jazz.com Sorry I did not better inform you about the situation….before you arrived. Its been a learning experience for me too.
March 19th, 2008 at 3.06am
T - it’s been a brilliant experience, no doubt about it, and no need to apologise at all.
March 19th, 2008 at 5.29am
I don’t know, maybe Dex is Buble’s manager (albeit a tad illiterate). Or his Malaysian representative (who is obviously doing a good job given the man’s ubiquity)!
I worked for Ken Clarke a couple of times as a Government press officer and he was a lot more fun than most except for the last few days leading up to the Notts Forest v Spurs Cup Final when he and I were not on speaking terms, due to our conflicting football loyalties! Coffee, cigars, curry and beer were his other driving passions. Oh and politics, of course!
March 19th, 2008 at 12.47pm
Rachel - it occurs to me that you may be living in a Mickey Bubble bubble.
March 19th, 2008 at 2.16pm
Andrea… This weekend I finished a little tongue in cheek essay inspired by one of our conversations. If you’ve been attacked for your for your criticism, I’m afraid I’ll be crucified.
http://www.reduceyourmusicfootprint.com/
Dare me to post to jazz.com?
March 19th, 2008 at 5.18pm
ha! love it. and yes, I think you absolutely should :-).
March 19th, 2008 at 5.38pm
Greetings from my Mickey Bubble
Tongue in cheekness accepted. Just worried about the generalisations that the older the better and conversely the newer the more rubbish.
I’d go with the ’stop recording’ but am worried about the ’stop creating’. So, ahem. A little compromise would achieve two activities that I support - collaboration and gatherings.
To create music and pass it on would require mucisians to work with each other learning (and possibly adapting) the music and would require audiences to come together to listen (and possibly dance
) live.