I've often asked many of you to accompany me two Edgar at Studentsamfundet. Wedensday is live jazz, wine and cheese night. It is wonderful. The wine is cheep (in both the true and derogatory sense of the word), but the jazz is wonderful.The students play with such vigor. It's both wonderful and tiresome, that they leave almost no pause in the music for you to recuperate. They just keep at it, building complexity upon complexity - cleverly structuring the music so that in the end you have no choice but to close your eyes if you are to catch every bang of the drum, every thump of the base, every note of the guitar and whine of the violin. It's superb.
What the jazz students lack in patience, they make up for in technical skill. Another thrill is that these are the jazz hopes of the future, and we might just be lucky enough to spot some rising stars. Just now a group called Pelbo is being considered for Norway's most prestigious music award. They were first seen by me and my friends on a Wednesday at Edgar.
For those of you that haven't been there, I highly recommend it.
