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| - Review of the event "Jazz at the Bechtler"
The AOK is for the music itself. Amazing band.
I don't want to be a downer, but the set up of this event is the oddest thing I have ever seen. They featured gypsy jazz - amazing music - full of life and vigor and soul - then had everyone sitting is stuffy rows with a few reserved tables at the front.
I guess I will never understand the kind of people who want to hear music that was pulled from the souls of the traveler, the hobo, the bohemian while sitting perfectly still and emotionless during the entire thing.
I love ballet, the opera, live theater etc - but when it comes to music, can we get a little dancing room, please.
I guess this is the Angelino in me and maybe the Southern audience is more into this sort of set up. I love venues where they play jazz and have room for dancing, lounge areas for sitting, tables for having a bite to eat etc...
Also, they were serving SOUP as a food offering. That was also rather odd. It was a warm day and all the people stuffed shoulder to shoulder in folding chairs - then soup on top of that? Just rather odd.
Some lady in front of us kept giving us the evil eye because we were apparently enjoying the music too much and dancing in our seats.
My advice if the owners ever read this is choose the event set up inline with the music you are featuring. The age range of the audience was on the plus 60 side, but perhaps you could offer a late edition that takes away those folding chairs and allows people to really enjoy the music in the setting in which it was created.
Of course, this is the problem with a lot of art galleries in general - art is usually created in a messy, boho space - then displayed in a sterile, clean modern space... removing is creator from the creation... I think it would be truly cutting edge to see music, art, dance ... in a setting more akin to it's birth... that would be very cool.
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