Hans Groiner Live at Smalls Jazz Club Part 2

Part two of Hans Groiner's historic appearance at Smalls Jazz Club. With Joe Martin & Jeff Ballard. Here he plays his interpretation of Thelonious Monk's "Bemsha Swing"

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• jazz
• hans
• groiner
• thelonious
• monk
• larry
• goldings
• smalls
• club
• jeff
• ballard
• joe
• martin
• piano
• music

[Djangoblackbird]

Oh come ON! It's comic relief, it's a chance to laugh at others and ourselves. Are we so uptight that we're going to call this the "death of a jazz scene" if somebody decides to try a little humor?

[spikewilner]

THANK YOU! THIS IS COMEDY! Jeeez...

[ChamberlainJazz]

oh larry

[AHirsch]

@b356014

I didn't mean to call you an idiot, it was uncalled for and I apologize, but I implore you to take this for it's musical humor, not the token reference to Braunau.

[AHirsch]

@b356014

No one is laughing because he's Austrian. Actually, the only joke he makes about Braunau is when he says "don't hold that against me," but nobody is running off and telling their friends about how funny that joke was. It's about the musical humor. Larry could have done this with any accent, more or less, but he decided to approximate an all-purpose german/austrian accent.

[AHirsch]

@b356014

What makes this funny is not the Braunau reference. I am also Austrian, and my family comes from Rottenmann, albeit 4 generations ago. I would bet that most people who watch this don't even remember or pay much attention to the fact that he's pretending to be Austrian. What's funny about this whole character is that Larry pretends to be a foreigner, obviously not familiar with the cultural significance and idiosyncrasies of Monk, and thus "corrects" them.

[b356014]

@AHirsch #

Who are you nameless that you call ME idiot???

You are too you to know what is the background of Braunau

Here in Europe we have a different feeling for what is humor and what is tasteless.

And here in Austria we do not make jokes with things regarding Braunau where A.H. was born. And what this Braunau native did ´til 1945 was absolutely not funny.

Prof. T.C. Pfeiler - Austria´s first international Hammond B3 Jazz-organist since 1978 & composer

[b356014]

Here in Europe we have a different feeling for what is humor and what is tasteless.

And here in Austria we do not make jokes with things regarding Braunau where A.H. was born. And what this Braunau native did ´til 1945 was absolutely not funny.

[AHirsch]

@b356014 you're an idiot

[funkEntelechyPlacebo]

It's kind of Richard Clayderman meets Keith Jarret meets Monk. Genius