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I’m not exactly what you might call ardent jazz fan and I know about jazz next to nothing. But sometimes I catch myself listening to some of the jazz from the last century, from the sixties or seventies. For example, I like listening to John Coltrane, and, among others, Miles Davis.
What I am talking about is, in fact, a memory of my childhood or rather they are my childhood flashbacks. As I listen to Blue Moods, it is as if I am returning to another plane of existence. The gentle, sleepy sounds of the rhythm section and equally sleepy and soft sounds of xylophone and trumpet take me back to the eighties when I guess the jazz hype in Yugoslavia had already been on a decline, but there were sporadic jazz concerts to be seen on TV.
This means that my listening to jazz music at that time was exclusively related to listening to and watching jazz musicians on Radio Television Belgrade, probably program 2. At the time there were only two TV programs. How marvellous, especially because you didn`t have to flip the channels searching for anything meaningful to watch. The "golden age" of the post-Tito regime, which was neither communism nor socialism, but was, in fact, a typical authoritarian regime. I guess that`s clear to everyone by now, except for the last remnants of that age if they are still alive.
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What I am talking about is, in fact, a memory of my childhood or rather they are my childhood flashbacks. As I listen to Blue Moods, it is as if I am returning to another plane of existence. The gentle, sleepy sounds of the rhythm section and equally sleepy and soft sounds of xylophone and trumpet take me back to the eighties when I guess the jazz hype in Yugoslavia had already been on a decline, but there were sporadic jazz concerts to be seen on TV.
This means that my listening to jazz music at that time was exclusively related to listening to and watching jazz musicians on Radio Television Belgrade, probably program 2. At the time there were only two TV programs. How marvellous, especially because you didn`t have to flip the channels searching for anything meaningful to watch. The "golden age" of the post-Tito regime, which was neither communism nor socialism, but was, in fact, a typical authoritarian regime. I guess that`s clear to everyone by now, except for the last remnants of that age if they are still alive.
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