All that Jazz

Now with a title as cliched as that what else could I be talking about outside of some concert that I attended. It was by this band called nu Box. Now they were earlier Blue Box and have, after adding an interesting new member to their lineup decided to become nu Box. A million lines about nu box and old box are sprouting in my head but I'll pass as of now. Ok I lost the brochure that they gave so I dont know what their names are. Was never big with the foreign names. I mean its bad enough not being able to understand their accented english, to be able to extract a name out of that is impossible. Anyway the point is they have a guy on this cool electric double bass. That's like a regular double bass with a lot less wood and a cable coming out of it. One man on a trumpet that he kept trying to stifle by stuffing implements of various shapes and sizes into the noisemaking end of the trumpet. Will be nice and say I think he was changing the quality of the sound coming out. Then another man on drums, keyboards and programming. He's the man. sits on this keyboard(like a yamaha, not a qwerty you geeky bastards) and iBook (another indication that any entertainment/multimedia related application requires a Mac), programs a nice backing rhythm and some keys and then sits on the drums to play his thing(sorry if that came out the way I think it has).
Now these three men, if the pamphlet I lost is to be believed, are trained accomplished classical musicians who, apart from having learnt music formally and composed many a tune of note, also teach at the university of Essen (I think). Oh how I wish it was Bremen so they'd be the three musicians of Bremen, which is a different story altogether. The Fourth guy is the dude. all of some 25-26 years old, he sits on a DJ console and does things to the jazz the other three play that completely altered my perception of what jazz could acutally be.
I don't like using the terms classical or mainstream jazz since jazz is all about changing, improvising and bringing in new variations everytime. These fellows call their music dance jazz or electronica jazz, either way they were great. The typical song would start with DJ boy and drummer slowly establishing a rhythm, bassie kicking in with some neat grooves and finally the trumpet making music. There was this one song I remember where everybody was out there on stage doing their own thing when the DJ mixes in Milkshake (by Kelis). Awesome...

It didnt help of course that before the concert I was at an unlimited champagne brunch funded by the progenitors.... and I'd more or less had unlimited champagne...

The virus has all but gone, leaving behind a blocked nose and a fading writer's block.

That's all folks.

See you later, Crocodile. - King Julian XIII, Self-proclaimed order of the Lemurs