UKRM Film Club - The Counterfeiters

And that.

That too.

And that.

And that.

This may be true. It's still not my cup of tea.

 

Oh, this is an easy one.

Any jazz from the 1970s onwards. Especially smooth jazz. Ugh.

 

In the same way that I'm not really sure how half the stuff labeled
'jazz' gets that labe, I'm not entirely sure how you can say you 'hate
jazz'. It's such a wide variety of music, that from one end of the
spectrum(s) to the other, it's like a totally different world.

For me, that would depend on the jazz. Fifteen old guys with various
brass instruments ad a piano, I'm probably just about there with you.
Half a dozen young black hoodies from Chicago, with carious brass
insturments and a hip hop beat, on the other hand, seems to work much
better (for my tastes).

For example, I recently went to see a dutch band, who played at the
"North Sea Jazz Festival", and their musicians include a guy sitting in
from of a computer and 'effects'/'control' box throwing in all sorts of
funky beats, b-lines, samples etc. The fact they were 'jazz'
completely passed me by, because they absolutely rocked the place out
out.

 

I'm totally with you there. You can't go to a good night at the 100 Club
and not enjoy it. Or not like people from Diana Krall to Nina Simone or the
likes of Ray Charles

 

^front.

<goes to grind and brew some coffee>

 

She's got excellent taste. Well in all but one blindingly obvious area.

The kind that consists of a series of wrong notes in the wrong order. I
don't know which of the above areas that covers.

I went on a work jolly to the opening of Ronnie Scott's in Brum. The
support band were The Curtis Little Band, who were really good & not
remotely jazzy. Then the main event came on - some top Yank jazz band -
& I literally couldn't listen to it. It's almost like I'm allergic.

 

Krusty wrote:
[of jazz]

Q: How do you make a jazz quartet?

A: take a blues quartet and throw them down some stairs.

 

As others have said, broad church innit.

King Oliver - good. Courtney Pine - shite.

 

*ding* *clang* There was an excellent wireless programme about this a
few years ago. <googles> ah-ha!

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/outoftune.shtml>

 

Yet I don't have a problem with Japanese or Indian music. I may not
/like/ it, but it doesn't sound like it's completely out of tune. The
only non-jazz example I can think of that grates my teeth is Florence &
The Machine trying to sing live, but we did that one a few weeks ago.

 

As a surfer for 15 years, I'd like to say that I still enjoy watching
Point Break. But as said, it's not really a surf movie.

There was something about her short dark hair that really really really
suited her. Shit, I can't think about her now, I'm at work.

 

Yeah. I am partial to rhythmic music that makes me want to move.
Syncopation is a large part of it. It doesn't matter whether it is New
Orleans funeral music ("When the Saints...") or contemporary funk, or
an Indian raga in teental, I can appreciate it and enjoy it. But John
Coltrane leaves me cold and Japanese or Chinese atonal, arrhythmic
music just grates on my ears.

 

What I dislike about a lot of jazz is that I find it tuneless. In that
respect I agree entirely with Krusty's phraseology about wrong notes
in the wrong order.

And the "western scale", by which I assume is meant equal temperament,
doesn't always sound right even to a westerner. A piano, for example,
doesn't play perfect fourths or fifths, so to me will always sound out
of tune some of the time.

 

Sir needs to find some Gamelan preferably live with Balinese dancers.

 

BTDT. Akshewly have a souvenir gong I scored in a street market
somewhere in Java. The dancers are hot, the music I can appreciate on
a certain esoteric level, but I still like juju more.