April’s Dardanella of the Month!

April’s Dardanella is from a group called The Jazz 4, and was posted on YouTube only weeks ago. Where they are playing, I cannot tell. The video had just 21 views on YouTube when I first looked at it today. Let’s give a listen:

Amazing how… perfunctory it all is. These gentlemen were evidently hired to provide background noise at some upscale gig. The musicians make no effort toward flash or stage presence at all, as if they were being paid to fade into the scenery. It would seem that some hotel manager instructed them, in all seriousness, to avoid arousing the notice of the patrons of the venue at all costs. Our entertainers hit the notes in a competent and able fashion while the audience murmurs away, oblivious.

We never see the crowd in our static camera viewpoint. From the evidence presented, they give no indication that they are aware of this performance of one of the great songs of the last one hundred years.

Unappreciated genius! Live, on tape!

A curious document, yes?

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