Friday, 25 July 2008

Jazzers and Classical Music, a funny version of “When the Saints..."

Do jazzers know classical music? Of course, most of them know it quite well. Lots of them even start learning classical music before going into jazz, even nowadays. Others discover classical music later, after becoming musicians, and sure they can’t deny its appeal.
This question may sound a bit nonsense, because I hope most of you will know this already and won’t expect such an odd statement from me.
However, I believe there are lots of people (and not only young people) who still think classical music is dull and tedious. You may recognise some very beautiful or powerful lines, often used in adverts, you may even be able to name them, but you probably never heard the whole piece. I myself am awful at naming music, even when I know it quite well, so that’s absolutely not my point here. What I feel is that we all could benefit from becoming more aware of what classical music is.

All this gibberish just to present you with a very funny version of “When the Saints…” by Louie Armstrong and Danny Kaye, where they unravel a whole list of names of classical composers – very good duo indeed!