"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:39:42 -0000, "Mike Gilmour"
wrote:

Harry Connick Junior is yet another of those James Last types, who can
take a song, extract every last piece of emotion from it - and then
throw that good stuff away and perform the dried-out crap that
remains. Jamie Cullum is from the same mould. None of these people
would recognise jazz if it bit them on the arse.

Oops - nearly forgot Herb Alpert and his mates! And lets not miss
Bobby Crush while we're at it.

Real jazz is not, and never has been anything to do with the middle of
any kind of road.

d

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Whoa, that's a bit harsh. I'm not looking at
Fitzgerald/Washington/Vaughan/Lee level of performance here but HKJ is
not
that bad.


Oh he is - I was first forced to listen to him on a car journey to
Switzerland.

I could only take HKJ in small doses, a long car trip is far far too much.
Once I was trapped in a car where the driver played the Pogues non stop for
500 miles while smoking cheroots Arghhhhh.

The lady concerned also had a Mike and the Mechanics
cassette. Both mysteriously disappeared from the car during a rest
break.

Fitzgerald/Washington/Vaughan/Lee I will listen to any time of the day
(or preferably night).

Me also.

d

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