Allan, I don't think you read my reply very carefully. As I said my judgements were not based on this group alone. Who has not heard huge dollops of jazz one way or another at various points in their life? On the radio, on film, on the telly. One would need to live in a cave to avoid it.
My original email was not so much prompted by that group as by the fact that I had been subjected to a whole evening of (typical) jazz. I needed to get the exasperation out of my system. I don't really have any comment on your remarks about Parisian restaurants, food etc. I don't claim to be an expert on the subject and it doesn't interest me much. Just at the moment I am listening to a CD of the music of Johannes Ockeghem. It is to jazz as Rembrandt is to some amateur daubing. DA Re:Derek, Thank you or your reply, but it is difficult to give measured comment with knowing who you were listening to on this occasion. It is not usually the up-market restaurants in Paris (was this in Paris?) that the best jazz is usually heard. Indeed it is not usually in the up-market Parisian restaurants where jazz is presented where the best food is eaten either. A mix of devotions usually results in a mixed outcome for both jazz and food. It is obvious that you have forgotten the music, have you forgotten the food and the wine equally so?
