Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Saturday, February 26, 2005
A puff piece, but we'll forgive it as it's a sad puff piece: it's about an actual performing big band playing before audiences smaller than itself. Maybe there's a reason: it does the artsy-craftsy stuff ("Well, it's sort of like in between Buddy Rich and something really modern"). There could be an audience for big-band, but we're so far removed from that music's height it's inconceivable how, and there are the unions, and the lack of good venues -- and what's more, with jazz dead, those who persist at it are musical archeologists excavating the same old fossils; we must include, I fear, these guys. One should pat these guys on the back for soldiering on, but you wonder if some gaggle of jazzsters with a little imagination, and few comely songbirds up front, and no fear of PLAYING FOR THE AUDIENCE -- or for DANCING -- mightn't do better.
P. S. This is from NIGHTLINE. We can guess what LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM's favorite music is: the BOSS -- and THE SOUND OF HIS OWN VOICE.
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