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redhotcurrydish

Free Smooth Jazz aka Adult contempory Land

Dec 16, 2006 09:32

So my boss handed me tickets earlier this week to go see Micheal Allen Harrison at the Old Church for his XMas concert. The boss wasn't able to go and knew the Mr and I enjoyed music.

We look over the guy's website; Lee's afraid the guy is Yanni but Portland's version. I'm going as I've been craving some Xmas stuff (yeah that whole advent season ( Read more... )

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kbuxton December 16 2006, 11:26:29 UTC

Cool. I just bought the Ray Charles CD but haven't listened to it yet!

fozz47 December 16 2006, 21:42:20 UTC

I run in to EJ about 2X as much as I run into anyone from the swing scene. That guy just gets around!

moofie74 December 17 2006, 00:31:20 UTC

I was wrong...the guy doesn't look like Yanni. That was just the hair. He is a dead ringer for Andy Serkis. When he said "Aren't they PRECIOUSSS..." I almost fell out of my pew.

The oboe player was a bit of a badass. You know you've got a hardcore oboe geek when he walks out on stage, sticks a reed in the end of his horn, and plays...in tune.

I was pretty surprised that the soprano sax player didn't make me want to smite. He actually played very nicely. Not the shrill, obnoxious Kenny G thing. It's still my least favorite sax (maybe my least favorite wind instrument), but he played it remarkably well.

Smooth jazz is bad, mmmkay? I knew I was in the wrong crowd when there were admiring murmurs about the headliner's CD being featured on the Today show. (Oooh! The Today show! That's relevant and meaningful to my life! Murmur murmur murmur!)

I've never watched the Today show in my life. Ptui.

moofie74 December 17 2006, 00:33:13 UTC

Oh yeah, all that aside...Julianne Johnson has some PIPES. That girl can sing. She was by far my favorite performance of the evening. The other performers were clearly talented, but she was fun.

oohahh February 23 2007, 20:22:22 UTC

A small victory came to me just yesterday. Sick, I went to the Koji Osakaya by my house for a big bowl of soup. Usually, the place plays decent jazz - heck, they play live jazz every Friday and Saturday - but today it was tuned to the all-soprano-sax-all-day-all-night-PLEASURETHON cable-radio station.

Hell, I'll take hot jazz, cool jazz, swing jazz, blues-jazz. I'll take bebop, postbop; I'll even take rhubarb pie. This soulless 80s sax whining, though? That's got to go.

I said about as much to the waittress who spent then next five minutes trying different stations. She settled on a station playing Ella.

She got a fat tip for my troubles. :-)