GERMANY/PAKISTAN: Peter Weniger dazzles audience

KARACHI, Sept 21: As a hard-core devotee and enthusiast of both western and the subcontinental classical music, the only jazz that I occasionally enjoy is the sort that was played in the 1930s and 1940s in the United States. These were the melodious compositions that featured call and response, ‘carving’ contests and the occasional blue note. Chris Barber and Monty Sunshine, the English virtuosos, used to faithfully reproduce the sounds of New Orleans as late as the 1980s. And I believe there’s a dive in Stockholm where a traditional jazz band still plays Cotton Club Stomp on request. What the audience heard at the concert entitled Jazz meets Raagas held at the residence of the hospitable German consul general Dr Tilo Klinner and his wife on Thursday evening was something else. It was the kind of Modern or Free Jazz that is played these days in Germany and most other parts of Europe.
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