It’s one of the most baffling of all art forms, and the most mocked. Laugh all you like; these musicians are working miracles, writes Adrian Chiles
It’s one of the most baffling of all art forms, and the most mocked. Laugh all you like; these musicians are working miracleswent to watch some jazz and everyone laughed at me. Family, friends, anyone on the bus who heard me and my friend talking on the way there, all sniggering, scoffing, smirking. There ought to be a jazz standard called Sniggering, Scoffing, Smirking.
, one of my favourite films, the young jazz drummer Andrew, played by Miles Teller, is on the telephone to his ex-girlfriend asking her, without success, to come to a jazz concert he’s playing. OK, he concedes, it’s not for everyone. He can say that again. On a first date relatively recently, I cooked a nice dinner that we ate together, with Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert playing in the background. The food went down well; Keith Jarrett less so.
When my dad saw Buddy Rich play in the 50s, he said Rich’s drumming was ‘like a power station starting up’
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