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Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

Funtime Tuesday


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Stevie Wonder is playing his first gig in Tokyo and the place is

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> >packed to the rafters.

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> >In a bid to break the ice with his new audience he asks if anyone would

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> >him to play a request.

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> >A little old Japanese man jumps out of his seat in the first row and

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> >at the top of his voice "Play a Jazz chord ! Play a jazz chord!".

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> >Amazed that this guy knows about the jazz influences in Stevie's varied

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> >the blind impresario starts to play an E minor scale and then goes into

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> >difficult jazz melody for about 10 minutes.

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> >When he finishes the whole place goes wild. The little old man jumps up

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> >and shouts "No, no, play a Jazz chord, play a Jazz chord".

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> >A bit p*ssed off by this, Stevie, being the professional that he is, dives

> >straight into a jazz improvisation with his band around the B flat minor

> >chord and really tears the place apart. The crowd goes wild with this

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> >show off his technical expertise.

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> >The little old man jumps up again.

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> >"No, no. Play a Jazz chord, play a jazz chord".

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> >Well and truly p*ssed off that this little guy doesn't seem to appreciate

> >his playing ability Stevie says to him from the stage "OK smart ass. You

> >get up here and do it!" The little old man climbs up onto the stage, takes

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> >and starts to sing .....

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> >" A jazz chord to say I ruv you..."

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