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this famous jazz club in Paris, and I was ust
a little kid, hanging around in the club in the
afternoons. I saw John Coltrane, Don
Cherry, Chet Baker, and I had no idea who
any of these guys were. But for my eighth
IE: There was uproar when smoking was
banned in French restaurants a few years
ago. Let’s hope your culture’s Gitanes-chic
coolness won’t be lost in the so-called
declining years.
JMJ: Obviously, the idea of Declinism is
there to sell papers, because darkness – or
blackness – is always more sexy than white.
Like night is more sexy than the day. But I
think in this kind of despair, or dark
moments, is where art is sometimes the most
exciting and interesting. So at the same time
you have Declinism, you have a lot of young
artists reacting against it. Like what’s going
on with Donald Trump – I think it will create
a new Bob Dylan. It’s always positive for art,
having a declared enemy, somebody to react
against. There is nothing worse than being
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birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright
piano and played for me for five minutes.
And each time I talk about this, I can still feel
the air from his trumpet on my chest. And
this was the shock of my life at the time –
understanding the power of sound on your
body. I understood there and then that our
job as musicians is to make the air vibrate.
And it’s very invisible as a job, but doing it
can create someone’s desire to move their
body, or even trigger tears or outright joy.
It’s just about moving the air in a specific
way, And as a career, I think it’s amazing.
in a society where everything is more or less
just okay.
IE: And if people want to ground them-
selves, they can always read – or re-read –
Exupery’s “The Little Prince.”
JMJ: You’re absolutely right. It’s so univer-
sal. I was involved with the family, because
they asked me at one point to get involved
with a project surrounding The Little Prince,
but it was too difficult so I gave up. But it’s
obviously something very symbolic and
very interesting, the idea of how isolated yet
Jean-Michel Jarre
how linked we all are. So I think people
should read “The Little Prince” today. And I
also think that would be really good advice
for Donald Trump. We should send him a
copy of the book, you know?
Appearing 5/22 at Auditorium Theater
Chicago
Tom Lanham
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MONDAY 29
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Tenry
Johns Blues Band/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Summer Son/Tony Ocean — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge, Michigan
City, IN; Rebel Reign Unplugged — Broken Oar, Port Barrington;
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w/Burke — Reggie’s, Chicago; Porn & Chicken — The MID,
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TUESDAY 30
Trivia Nite — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Pete Ellman Big Band
Jazz — Base Camp, Lisle; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Sheryl Youngblood Band — Blue Chicago,
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Fuel/Marcy Playground/Dishwalla — Arcada Theater, St.
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LAUV — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW Williams/Demetria Taylor —
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Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons —
Martyrs, Chicago; Kaiju Daiko & Chikoto Taiko — Old Town
School, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Reggie’s, Chicago; Brian
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Space, Evanston; Bruiser Queen/Natalie Grace Alford/The
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Subterranean, Chicago; Temperance Brass (Edgewater) —
Uncommon Ground, Chicago; Dante — Underground, Chicago;
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