# Call the cops! This jazz isn't jazzy enough. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850 "2009-12-11T11:26:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/1 "2009-12-11T11:26:24Z")
[Spanish jazz fan calls police due to ‘psychological inadvisibility’ of listening to jazz saxophonist who might play on the wrong side of the line between jazz and contemporary music](http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/09/jazz-festival-larry-ochs-saxophone). I was not sure I had ever read anything more crazy. Until I read that: > [@](#): > > According to a report in El País newspaper yesterday, the khaki-clad police officers listened to the saxophone-playing and drumming coming from the festival stage before agreeing that the purist might, indeed, have a case. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/2 "2009-12-11T12:49:17Z")
Seems like the Guardia Civil is _the_ authority in defining what’s jazz. Seriously, this is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/3 "2009-12-11T13:21:24Z")
Cool photo–love that sopranino. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/4 "2009-12-11T13:59:52Z")
It’s a little-known fact that the Guardia Civil has a Jazz Response Unit, armed with berets, goatees and jazz cigarettes. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/5 "2009-12-11T17:19:21Z")
So **this** is what that Leonard Cohen song was about. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/6 "2009-12-11T17:27:27Z")
Now if it was Kenny G… ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/7 "2009-12-11T19:19:29Z")
Jokes aside, I’m betting the cops decided it was easier to just write up the guys complaint and pass it on to a judge to decide, rather than deal with an obviously insane jazz fan. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/8 "2009-12-11T20:33:46Z")
If he lived in Ireland you can bet he would be writing to his TD\* about it. \*Irish for “MP” ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/9 "2009-12-11T21:21:59Z")
Jazzer, drop that axe - it’s Jazz Police! {horrid backing vocals} ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/10 "2009-12-11T22:11:32Z")
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know. Unless you ask the police. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/11 "2009-12-12T06:05:11Z")
Jazz handcuffs? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/call-the-cops-this-jazz-isnt-jazzy-enough/520850/12 "2009-12-12T06:09:49Z")
This concert ended on a sour note.