Caucasus music style
May be “this” came from the president of the republic, who had taken it from the presidents of other countries and these presidents took it from the best image-makers of the world…
Anyway, the important part of this “taking from each other” story is the fact that listens to jazz music became an indivisible part of Armenian society’s life especially among average and high nap (though I am against of dividing society in such a stupid form).
Now in Yerevan, if you are a banker, for example, have a high rewarded work, own car, wife and lover, the compulsive part of your life is attending jazz clubs and listening to jazz radio in car or keeping some jazz CD’s in your car box like Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong at worst.
And these all not because of rich pocket that changes peoples music taste but because now they can allow themselves “to do it”. Version of why not?
Going on in this style: Yerevan’s jazz clubs or the places where play jazz, mostly attend people like the banker from my example and his friend’s ensemble. And it’s no news no more that these people come to Paplavok café to have a dessert after the restaurant’s eating or to show the others they also are here or to smoke a cigarette and all these under the jazz music. The Malkhas’s club is another foppish place: (Malkhas is an Armenian popular self-taught pianist who has opened a jazz club in Yerevan, if I’m not mistaken a year ago). The club, Avantgarde Folk Music Club…. jazzes’ places are o lot. And there are a lot of jazz real lovers and defenders.
That’s why Armenian jazzmen are almost excellent. It’s not only my-dilettante jazz listener’s opinion but musicians say so and this is serious. Artem Ayvazyans’s than Konstantin Oberlin’s-Armenian jazz band the best big bend for many years, Time Report, saxophonist Armen Husnunts, Cats, pianist Vahagan Hayrapetyan: good musicians are too many. Only the fact how many talented future musicians study in Conservatories jazz faculty is enough to be sure for the Armenian jazz music future.
And I said all these to summarize that “jazz bum” in Armenia started not because people became richer but because the musicians are good and we have conscious spectator. I hope so.
My Georgian and Azerbaijan friends told me that in their countries there is also a “jazz bum”. As for other Caucasus countries I have no information (will glad anyone to inform me).
A thing I see for sure. If we are going to listen to jazz like the people from my examples very soon we will have a jazz Caucasus style which indivisible part will be listening to it during eating barbecue. :))))))
P.S. It would be interesting if Robert Kocharyan prefers black metal except for jazz and would attend rock clubs. All the ministers would summit talks under rock music and in rock clubs. Really great, isn’t it?
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as of yet, Rock is considered the music of those opposing to the ‘regime’… so I guess, very soon Robert Kocharian will start attending rock concerts - he’ll be out of job soon, and will naturally be opposed to the ‘regime’, no? :))))))