On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:26:51 +0000, Don Pearce
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.

LOL! Bang bang bang! Fire those guns, why don't you.

Oh: And I disagree. Some Harry Connick I like. I have to be in the
mood, and it's always background music. I like Jamie a lot, however.
It may not be 'jazz' as the 'jazz people' define it, but I don't at
all think it's the sort of dried out **** you mention. I like his
voice and he can play piano. When you see him perform, you could not
say that he is not feeling the music. Anyway, horses for courses and
all that.

Viva Richard Clayderman!*

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* Only joking. I do like 'real jazz' too.