{"id":66,"date":"2004-05-09T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2004-05-09T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T09:48:30","slug":"jazz-cellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Cellar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jazz belongs in cellars. Heading down a few steps and into a small, smoky bar with no windows – that’s its natural environment.
\nLast night Cal and I went to Henry’s Jazz Cellar, one of Edinburgh’s long-standing jazz venues, and checked out a group called Les Ecossais. They were all music student age, and their look was somewhere between Boyzone and the skatepunks doing grinds in Bristo Square. It was nice to not be the youngest in a jazz venue – there were a lot of young folk there, diluting the old Jazzheads.
\nThey got props from the crowd, too, and deserved it. Their stuff was pretty fresh. Mostly new compositions by themselves, with some by other folk I’ve never heard of (unsurprising given how closely I follow jazz, i.e. not even a little). It was a pretty cool set, and a good evening out. Must go again.
\n—
\nWhat the hell is going on in New Zealand? I’m hearing crazy stories second hand, and the stuff I see in the news is crazy enough. Like, Brash making a speech in Napier today that was only a few steps removed from the British National Party cultural purity line? This can’t be true, can it? Like, a Maori woman declaring a train after the hikoi ‘for Maori only’ and forcing non-Maori off? Urban myth, surely? Like, a Maori person getting verbally abused in a corner store while buying milk? This one, sadly, is true<\/a>.
\nIt seems like New Zealand is turning into a different country while I am away from it. And it seems the new country is much nastier than the old one.
\nI hate to see the politics of fear played out so strongly in Aotearoa. It makes me ill.
\n—
\nExcellent piece<\/a> on reading the Iraq prison stuff, at Teresa Neilsen Hayden’s divine Making Light<\/a>. Very much worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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