All About Jazz!
Q. What is the difference between a pizza and a jazz musician?
A. A pizza can feed a family of four!
What is it about jazz that makes a jazz musician stick to a form of music that A&R managers have scientifically and suspiciously proven to be a musician´s surest route to death by starvation?
One good reason would be the fact that jazz allows me to be myself as opposed to pop that wants me to be Madonna. I would rather be me than strut onstage wearing conical jocks. I remember a male indipop album released by some genius A&R manager, titled ´mai bhi Madonna´ (i´m Madonna too). Jazz as you will see, and if you´ve heard about ´mai bhi Madonna´, helps me retain my individuality and what´s left of my sanity in this big mad world of music marketing. Jazz, the most open, alive and evolving form of music, is the medium i choose to communicate and express myself musically. I know a lot of people in the audience may not understand my intense shoobee-doo-wop, shoobee-doobee-doo-wop and emotive twidlee-didlee, didlee-doo-dah along with some sensitive chaka-chaka, shaka-dish-boom-thaak. But there´s always the few who can ´feel´ what they can´t figure. Most of the time the message i communicate may read ´hey brother, how about a loan..i´m broke again´ but when i have someone in the audience enjoying my music, i become a millionaire.
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