Mezzo Forte – Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra.

So. These guys are a bit weird aren’t they. Performing at Bristol’s Colston Hall on a Wednesday evening in April (the 7th to be exact), this was my first proper experience of live jazz, and it was… Interesting. It ranged mainly from excellent to awful, although it wasn’t the playing that was bad. Just what [...]

Elevator Music

Would someone please explain to me the whole concept/cult of jazz?! In this case, it was some smooth jazz (ie. the stuff that’s not completely awful, is actually palatable to the ear, and can go on in the background without it interrupting too much of the current topic of discussion) that we saw. In a [...]