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Shanghai, although it is a great and a total of a rich town, but it is difficult to say that it lies on a very busy concert routes biggest stars. They come here sometimes at more well-known artists, but rare are the stars of the masthead of the charts. I kind of do not bother, because the music likes it or not, no matter how high it was promoted. As for China, after a Rolling Stones concert two years ago seemed to be already, everything is on track and the stars of the first size (even if you are already przysiwialymi dinosaurs) finally start to Country to visit the center. Because he was a little jarring Stonesami because local censorship did not allow them to play a few songs (Eg "Let's Spend the Night Together"), and they were not in the Chinese edition of their album "40 licks), but no country is what the custom, the Chinese apparently have no right to spend the night together, he would hit it in the politics family planning (which allows to have only one child) and probably would lead to a demographic bomb ... This year, however, the situation came back to "normal" - China has again found themselves on the list of countries reluctant to light this music. The reason was undoubtedly the Performance of Bjork In March 2008, which in one of the songs started to call for independence of a big ranch in the west Gorski People's Republic. censors got the paws, then after that not reacted quickly and efficiently, artists must sign a litharge, with the Any departure from previously established and approved repertoire will be punished with the withdrawal of whole salary. However, in the meantime had time in Shanghai sing Kyle Minogue, Avril Lavigne, also starring George Benson and Al Jarreau, so maybe after the Olympics and all other events of 2008, gradually we will be able to see more interesting artists here from abroad.

Last week has passed under the sign of the Shanghai jazz - as part of the Fifth International Jazz Week, a series of concerts took place, whose main stars were Jazzy Queen - jazzy queen. Kings were three - A certain Maria Cordero of Macao / Hong Kong (for which you've never heard, which of course about nothing does not provide), Salena Jones (reportedly one of the greatest jazz singers of the world) and Patti Austin - on which the concert we had a chance to be.

Patti Austin I am fairly well known thanks to early fascination with Quincy Jones productions - the album "Off the Wall" (from 1979) Michael Jackson and "Dude" (1981). Patti sang a duet with Jacko on his breakthrough album, and then also appeared with George Benson. She was nominated for nine Grammys, by the end of last year, 35 anniversary of his singing career, get well-deserved in the category for best jazz vocal album - for her interpretations of the Gershwin standard. Patti in other circles is also known to shed almost 70kg overweight gastric bypass surgery thanks to ...

Anyway, on the last Wednesday before the girl returned from school, quick meal, Mala M regained the lessons yet, get on a taxi and go. Peak hour, the taxi driver knows the city worse than we are, which travels to the taxi only 3 weeks, little time, a long way, because we live in the west of the city, a concert hall is on Pudongu 浦东, so I'm late.

For information - Shanghai is divided into the western part - 浦西 Puxi and Pudong 浦东 East - and away-the mother river Huangpu 黄 浦江. Western part of the old Shanghai and the East, this new - whose very rapid development came after the famous visit Deng Xiaoping in 1992. Less than 20 years of construction - from complete scratch. Now, when you look at the panorama Pudongu, forest of skyscrapers (including the two buildings in the country's top ten highest world), and do not want to believe that built it - as my friend says some - a small Chinese handles ... I used to write about it more, this is not the subject of this post. Anyway, each drive to Pudong always awakens in us the emotions and admiration for the development of the country, hence the interpolation.

We arrive at the end of the Shanghai Oriental Art Center 上海 东方 艺术 中心, the impressive building designed by Frenchman Paul Andreu (who also created the airport projects in Shanghai, Dubai's and De Gaulle in Paris) and erected in 2002-2004. Centre is really extraordinary architecture, blooming like a flower with five petals of orchids - concert halls. The roof is lined with special lights that change color under the influence of music, the walls are covered with metal and glass, which filters and gently diffuses light, so that the granite floor seem Center sciezkammi town forest. Actually building the 21st century.

Uniformed politely asks the young lady, so I left a backpack in the locker room, because the bags and backpacks are not allowed to enter. I was ready for it, but I have a camera in a backpack, camera, ide to a secluded place where no one sees me, I assume sex in front of the winter jacket, I look pregnant now at an advanced or devoted to his passion for beer drinker, yet swelling cheeks, in order to face better suited to this brzusiska, let in me ...

After a moment, waiting in the hall and watching what happens in the middle of one of the many video screens suspended (support does not allow for the entrance to the room while performing songs spoznialskim - and praise them for it!) In the end band finishes their first song, and walk. Some places we had there, I see that in the first row in the balcony are just three ideas, so there, and we pre it. People in total, little, a lot of vacancies. A large hall, a 2000 spectators, we are on the balcony, a fantastic view, there is even a place on its feet. He writes about it because it variously happens - I once drove Polish Autosan the wilds of south-western China, and were made on special order with two rows of seats for more. Even a person suffering from the growth medium during a journey lasting two days and one night (from Kunming to Xishuangbanna 西双版纳 昆明)

Luckily, the band accompanying the beginning of something there, Patti played without its participation, so a small loss. Then it enters, and enchants us with his voice. Standards mostly sings, the audience reacts quite chilly, most are Chinese and they, unfortunately, grew up on songs of praise, or construction of socialism and "Red Sun" (ie, Chairman Mao), or Cantonese pop, jazz standards so I do not know. Patti can see it was prepared, and to everyone's surprise singing "Moon represents my heart" 月亮 代表 我 的 心 from the repertoire of Teresa Teng.

邓丽君 Teresa Teng is the late singer from Taiwan, whose sweet and nostalgic voice is known to every Chinaman. Although her songs were banned in China, folk, and so reach everywhere, that until it was said that the day listening to Deng Xiaoping, and in the evening - Theresa. It was music, which the Chinese stealing hearts in the 80s and caused longing for family parties in mainland China among those who lose as a result of the war, the Kuomintang 国民党 internal fled to Taiwan in 1949. Teresa dreamed of merger performance in the PRC, but her untimely death in 1995 of an asthma attack thwarted by the fulfillment of this dream. I remember how Chinese workers of the company, which at that time I was hired, went saddened by the departure of Teresa - her music accompanied them in his youth, her passing was like a farewell to the youth.

End of Teresa Teng song Patti sang - to the delight of the audience - in Chinese. Entirely in Chinese also sang a song T'chai China 蔡琴 "Unforgettable" 忘不了, the audience who reacted very vigorously.

Everyone liked the pop "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" from the repertoire The Platters, and "Say You Love Me," Patti old hit from 1976.

me much to the liking of its interpretation of "Satin Doll" by Duke Ellington, Patti has a great voice, and somewhere there in the already very jazzy hear his voice echo of the old funk rhythms of the early hits.

concert was unfortunately short, lasted a total of a little over an hour, maybe, well, because Mala M began in late przysypiac. Besides, a nice atmosphere and we are very ciepelko rozleniwily and did not want us to move up and come back, but in the end we forced in August, nay, Large M had nothing against the subway ride, which quickly zawiozlo us on the other side of river.

Patti And the music we have somewhere in my head is ...

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