All that jazz in Thailand
By Nick Paul
I am a jazz musician and have been living In for the last seven years five of which were spent in Phuket.The last three years in Phitsanulok.
One would think as the current King of is a competent jazz musician,composer and arranger that there would be a strong jazz following .This is not the case however.Jazz played by Thai musicians is not easy to find.Not that the Thai,s are not competent ,they are but they seem to have chosen the rock and pop route of western music.
Bangkok the capital of has a few jazz club but the bands are in the main made up of Philipino musicians with the odd Thai.In the tourist areas like Pataya ,Phuket and Changmai there are bands that play in the better hotels and again they are mainly philipino with the odd Thai and and western musician .The clients of these
hotels being mainly tourist.The quality of the music is good and well presented.
Outside of these areas it is very difficult to find any jazz at all even in the other cities. There seems to be a growing interest in the music but I think that it is going to be some time before jazz is accepted by the people.In things change very slowly.
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