Jakarta and all that jazz..

Jakarta is very melodious this week. A powerful weekend of jazzy concerts from the stages of 5th Java Jazz Festival started to lullaby  the town with  the almost any kind of jazzy tunes. We have the headline maker like the funky but overrated Jason Mraz , to the sultry Japanese Quasimode,  or packs of Indonesian own prodigy kids like Tohpati;  just to name a few jazz knights who perform to  those 18 venues in a three days long annual festival. And then, on Monday, the city celebrated the evening with the unforgettable Natalie Cole in Gran Melia Hotel, about only ten minutes driving from the Java Jazz stage in Jakarta Convention Center.  And only three days later, the queen of “Phantom of the Opera”, the one and only ”Her Majesty” Sarah Brigtman came to take over the Gran Melia stage with that yummy Allesandro Safina…(in case you forget him, Homer, he was the one having a UN-themed duet with Elton John, yup , that’s him).

I am not so jazzy although my late mother introduced me to this music since I was little with her very precious  Rien Djamain collections. For me jazz is not something to see on stage but to be listened in a rainy evening with a mug of warm java tea and thinking about mom or those loved ones that I miss.  So, unless there is a Diana Krall performance, I don’t mind to not take a look at this Jazz Festival.  But I love Sarah and it was my intention to pay her an attendance at her concert in Gran Melia before its ticket price stopped me from doing so. Three million Rupiah to seven million for a seat is simply too much for real people like me (Ahha!) . Yeah, it was time for me to say goodbye cause I have to only listen Miss Brightman’s songs on my old CD and sing her along, “It’s  time to say goodbye, Sarah….”

Arghhh…….!

photo :taken from indolawas