"I would like to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do," admits multiple Grammy award winner Norah Jones who majored in jazz piano at college. In spite of all the perfect notes and steps on or off stage, many might lag the most essential element - the soul the music has. To judge any artist picking up strings or clashing cymbals, in jazz it would be the idea he/she projects and portrays through their instrument. The point of the music would be to do something and carry on doing it for the rest of your life. And despite the hard work and never ending rehearsals jazz musicians go through, at the end of the day the camera angles and the crazy stage lights - what matters the most seldom shines down toward these musicians.
In Nepal, musicians of all standards and ability have often come together for numerous occasions to perform jazz music at different venues. It's also the listeners who prefer to go to a more chic jazz show with musical horn sand off beat drums energetically, flaunting their signature styles. Call it a leap of faith or the attraction towards the comparatively new and low profile sounds of jazz, the Nepali crowd seems to have built a strange, yet deep relationship with it. The audience applauding vigorously to jazz at many instances might seem strange. Has the Nepali audience really adapted to jazz music? Matters get more complicated when you chat away with a bunch of musicians gulping down multiple glasses of local aaila. The words of wisdom they utter then are nothing more than jazz. That is very jazzy.
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