Jazz Club Entertains

The usual crowd of card-playing, lunch-eating, lethargic students sprawled about the Common Room last week were suddenly surprised and pleased to find themselves being entertained for free. Three Jazz Club members had installed themselves in one corner, and proceeded to play—promulgate—propagate modern jazz.

I know It was modern jazz, because I didn't understand a note of it. Still, it was most enjoyable.

Bruce Talbot on tenor saxophone, Mark Young wound around a double bass, and Alan Loney handling the drums; the group played for about an hour and a half, providing a pleasant, rhythmical background to conversation.

Comments 'from students were slightly better than good (on the average):

". . . pretty groovy—we dug It the most—far out . . ."

". . musically undisciplined. Lacking in harmonic coherence. . ."

. . good after dinner music. Let's have more. . ."

". . . da-di-Dum-da. . . yes, terrific. . . do-de-da. . ." and—oh yes—one science student guessed it was all right if they couldn't manage rock and roll. . . (plebeian!).

Incidentally, if you'd like to hear more from these players, drop in to the Studio Jazz—a glamorous relative of Jazz Club's—which is open from Wednesday to Saturday on the first floor of Fanning's Building in Manners Street. (That's almost opposite the Regent Hotel, if you find it easier to remember that way.) They usually start about 8.30 and play right through until the coffee-after-the-pictures crowd arrives for Its cocaine and cacophony.

Two Big Evenings

Jazz Club invites all students—everyone, in fact—to a jazz concert on Thursday, July 20, in the Little Theatre. Bookings are at the D.I.C. but if any seats are still available they will be sold at the door on the night.

I suggest you all go along to a talk they're having first, though, unless you want to Feel Inferior all evening at the intelligent comments of your friends. It's on Tuesday, June 27 (8 p.m. in the Music Room) and the speaker is John Charles.