One good thing about Bangkok is that the hotel bars are littered with pretty decent American jazz musicians offering some elegant tooting and tinkling as you sup your early-evening maragaritas. They're rarely household names, but a lot of them have impressive pedigrees, including stints with some of the big hitters as far back as the 1960s.
So the Bangkok Jazz Festival ought to offer a chance for these guys to get away from being background music to finger food, and actually play a few proper gigs. Sadly not. I'm not quite sure what jazz actually is any more, when I see that the headliners include Blood, Sweat and Tears, Shakatak and Matt Bianco:
To be fair, I was quite fond of MB when I was a nipper. Think it was the houndstooth check jackets that did it. But I rather doubt they'll be performing their most memorable hit in BKK.
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Surely this is Matt Bianco;s finest moment?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkB25V_ow8
Kind of a Kennedyesque moment for a generation of kids, except that the answer to "where were you...?" would inevitably be "in me mam and dad's front room"
That's the last link, Nick, but for some reason I couldn't embed it.
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