Sunday, 30. March 2003
Topic: DRUGS - on March 30, 2003 at 10:11:42 AM CEST
Chant of the Weed BBC - Radio 3 - Jazz
Think of the received image of the jazz musician, the young man with a horn or the tortured singer with the gardenia in her hair. And think what baggage they carry, along with the reeds and the valve oil and the spare mouthpieces. Somewhere in the flight case or purse, tucked away out of sight but still seemingly essential to the image, a little something for after the gig, maybe weed, maybe white powder, maybe a discrete bottle of pills. Like it or not, drugs are very much part of the history and still more of the mythology or jazz.
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