Jazz Night in Front Room

-----This is real Athenian Culture.

The Jazztet---they are from the Athens, they exactly demonstrate Athenian characteristics: deeply involved and truly loving, which can be demonstrated by the fact that they were totally indulged in their own music, yet also endeavored to wake from their world to interact with the audience as mush as they could.

Jazz night on Tuesday has become a biweekly tradition in Front Room. Local Jazz bands are invited to perform for once a month for a time period, depending on their popularity among the students and guests. Therefore, to have one's favourite band perform there, students should voice their favourite band out to UPC (university program council).

I first heard from my friend Ash last quarter that Jazz music in Front Room was pretty nice and cool. Jazztet, the band for this quarter's jazz nights in Front Room, has five members in the team:

•Ernie Bastin --- Valve Trombone & Percussion
•Guy Remonko---Drums & Percussion
•Matt James---Saxophone
•John Horne---Guitar
•Terry Douds---Bass




What impressed me most about this band is that everybody seems to indulge in their own instrument playing, however they are closely connected with their rare glance at each other or even their tacit agreement with each other.

Attentive meditating indulged involved



An glance is worth more than words

There is this difference between a music band and a jazz band. They start a song differently----music band usually starts with the drum, while the jazz band are starting by snap their fingers or counting "one, two, three. "

I asked John Horne, the guitarist, about the amplifier he used for his guitar and the kind of sound he was looking for. because i found that his guitar sound was kind of different with the sound i have heard from other amplifier. He said that he was using Fishman Amp and the sound he was looking for was an old vintage sound. He plays really well. Therefore, it did not surprise me when i found out that he was a professor in the music school of OU on their website. Actually, every member of this band are related with OU, either a current teacher in OU, or a Emeritus professor.

It is exciting to discover that they also play Latino music, which is completely to my taste. I guess i will follow them later about any Latino music show since I'm a Latino music fan. More of their works are available on their my space.