Social media, email and the Internet have not only brought about the quick and convincing scare syndrome and the quick-spread falsehood but it has also brought about the passionate reactionary. Witness Hans Groiner. No, he's not a passionate reactionary. He is however, a very clever entertainment presentation from the clever and talented Larry Goldings, who is not may I mention, a comic by trade.
The passion, both rational and not, enters the picture when you read the commentaries of the YouTube offerings of Hans Groiner. In short, the fictional Mr. Groiner is a musician who, although he does not like jazz, has undertaken the project of 'correcting' the music of Thelonious Monk. The result is a new-age-y, benign, vaguely familiar tune chock-full of major chords and 'straight' rhythms. But Larry's shtick is very SNL-ish or Christopher Guest/Rob Reiner parody-like and every bit as witty.
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