Everything you always wanted to know about jazz...

By Colin D'Cruz

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.

By Colin D'Cruz
www.hullocheck.com