Chapter 157 A Jazz Bar
House-Of-Jazz is a jazz bar in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
The jazz music provided here is definitely first-class in Seoul.
The entire bar is divided into two floors, the first floor is a public place, and the second floor is a business box. The decoration style in the store is American country style, old-fashioned dressing table, wooden bar and tables and chairs. It is not a deliberate feeling, just like the black and white photos of jazz masters of various periods hanging on the wall behind the bar, gentle but not ostentatious.
Most of the musicians who sing here come from abroad. The solid technology is accompanied by extremely creative improvisation solo and touching sincere voices, which makes the audience truly selfless.
Generally speaking, jazz bars are not too big. Just like jazz music genres are relatively niche, jazz bars are also somewhat niche. Compared with the elegant jazz listening to jazz bars, young men and women today are undoubtedly more willing to go to nightclubs or discos to indulge in passion.
However, House-Of-Jazz is definitely not small, it is one of the largest jazz bars in Seoul. Moreover, House-Of-Jazz has a good business on weekdays. The guests are usually young men and women from wealthy houses, and some older people or people who like elegant moods.
Because the consumption level here is not low, ordinary people can't afford it easily.
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At seven o'clock in the evening, Tiehu drove Jin Jingcheng's silver Land Rover Range Rover and took Jin Jingcheng to the parking lot at the door of House-Of-Jazz.
Kim Dong-woo attended a birthday party at House-Of-Jazz in the evening, and asked Jin Jingcheng to come and meet him.
Kim Jingsung was a little surprised, thinking that since Kim Dong-woo was attending his friend's birthday party, it was inevitable that he would be a bit unsuitable for him to come here as an outsider.
It was Tiehu who took it for granted because he knew that Kim Dong-woo was a person of this kind of personality.
Tiehu was surprised that it was a bit strange for people like Kim Dong-woo who only went to nightclubs and discos tonight to come to places like jazz bars. However, Tiehu quickly judged that the identity of the host who held a birthday party tonight must be extraordinary, and it is likely that Kim Dong-woo has a high status in Kim Dong-woo's mind, otherwise Kim Dong-woo would not come to the jazz bar easily.
Tiehu told Jin Jingcheng about these thoughts, so that Jin Jingcheng would be prepared first.
Come here tonight, Jin Jingcheng has indeed made some psychological preparations, which is considered to be of great importance.
Because Tiehu had already told Kim Jingsung about Kim Dong-woo's background that he knew roughly. Although Tiehu didn't know much about Kim Dong-woo's background, he still knew a little. For example, not only Kim Dong-woo himself was the captain of a mysterious special forces in South Korea, but a special force vanguard, several of his elders were generals of the South Korean military.
Kim Jingsung concluded that Kim Dong-woo is very powerful in the South Korean military and is mostly a child of a military family.
Tiehu also told Jin Jingcheng frankly that once Jin Jingcheng gets acquainted with Kim Dong-woo, it will be equivalent to adding a very powerful help.
Jin Jingcheng had no doubts about this. He naturally knew what it meant to make friends with a very powerful child of the military family. Moreover, he needed such friends around him now. What Jin Jingcheng was confused about was that Tiehu could actually become friends and even good friends with people like Kim Dong-woo. So, what was Tiehu's identity when he was in the Chinese army?
Jin Jingcheng didn't ask. He knew that after asking, Tiehu would not only not answer, but would feel embarrassed. He could just know some things. Anyway, Jin Jingcheng had long judged that Tiehu was definitely not an ordinary soldier at the time, and it was probably very unusual.
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The parking lot is not small, and many cars have been parked at this time, and some cars are coming one after another. Nearly half of them are cheaper than Volkswagen, and the other half are good luxury cars, including Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Yakos and even Porsche, etc. Compared with these good luxury cars, Jin Jingcheng's silver Land Rover Range Rover is not outstanding.
Successful people are often good at observing details and then guessing something in advance.
Through the details of these cars, Jin Jingcheng immediately speculated that the guests attending the birthday party tonight may have included two classes, one is the mass class and the other is the wealthy class.
This situation is generally rare. Since it is a private birthday party, usually, visitors are either mostly popular or wealthy.
Thinking of this, Jin Jingcheng was looking forward to this birthday party and felt that something unexpected might happen.
After Jin Jingcheng and Tiehu got off the bus, they immediately saw figures passing by, almost all young men and women in their twenties and thirties. Whether they were getting off the bus from Volkswagen or getting off the bus from luxury cars, they almost all dressed up. Most of the women were wearing evening dresses, while most of the men were wearing suits and ties, as if they were going to attend a high-end banquet.
At this time, a pair of couples passed by Kim Jong-sung, talking while walking.
The man asked nervously: "Dear, who is the one who holds a birthday party tonight?"
The woman said, "Didn't you tell me? I'm one of my high school classmates, and her name is Zhang Shilin."
The man asked: "Who is this Zhang Shilin? Why are there many rich children from the people who came tonight?"
The woman said: "That's sure, my classmate's family background is very good."
Then he whispered: "Although I don't know much about her family background, I heard that many of the elders in her family are officials, and they are all amazing officials."
The man became more and more nervous: "That's it, then...will I be right?"
The woman gave the man a blank look: "Look at your unpromising look, it's okay. This is the first time she has held a birthday party since she returned from studying in the United States. She specially invited a group of high school classmates and pointed out that she could bring her own partner."
The man nodded, still looking very nervous.
The woman said again: "Let's not worry about the rich children, let's tell you the truth. I came here tonight mainly to see the stars. I heard that there will be Oriental God tonight, and Fly-To-The-Sky will perform live to celebrate. I'm very excited if I think about it..."
The man interrupted dissatisfiedly: "Hey, I'm still here with your boyfriend, don't be fooled, okay?"
The woman smiled and said, "I know, I just look at celebrities. I don't really like them. Besides, even if I like them, how could they like me? After all, I'm not a rich girl."
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Kim Jingcheng listened to all this conversation.
"Zhang Shilin?" Jin Jingcheng murmured softly. This was the first time he had heard of this name.
However, Jin Jingcheng is naturally familiar with Dongfang Shenqi and Fly-To-The-Sky.
Dongfang Shenqi, without further explanation, the male group that was popular in Asia in the previous life was also a harmony dance group. At first, it was composed of five members: Kim Jae-jung, Jung Yun-ho, Park Yoo-tung, Kim Jun-soo, and Chen Changmin. The stage names were Heroes, Yu Lu Yun-ho, Miki You-tung, Xi Ya Jun-soo, and the strongest Changmin, which caused a phenomenal fan queen that was amazing or shocking.
Because it is still late September 2004, and the Eastern God Qi is still in its infancy.
On December 26, 2003, Oriental Shenqi made her debut on SBS TV stations BoA and Britney’s New Year’s “special-show”, performing on the same stage with BoA, singing “OH-Holy-Night”.
On February 6, 2004, more than half a year ago, Dongfang Shenqi recorded the TV program MBC-TV "Music Camp" through SBS's popular songs.
Even so, although he has only been officially debuting for more than half a year, Oriental Shenqi has already had a large number of fans in South Korea, many of whom are young men and women of the new era, especially those of college students and high school students.
After Kim Jong-sung returned to Korea, he was quite concerned about the entertainment industry, so it was impossible not to pay attention to Dongfang Shenqi.
Not long ago, Jin Jingchengcai saw a news report saying that on August 11 this year, Dongfang Shenqi was driving too intensively, and the driver suffered a rear-end collision due to fatigue. In the accident, the driver of the car in front died, and the driver's three families and five members of Dongfang Shenqi were all seriously or lightly injured.
It was only more than a month since the traffic accident. Dongfang Shenqi will perform at such a private birthday party tonight. This undoubtedly shows two aspects. One is that S.M Entertainment is really cruel to its artists, and the other is that Zhang Shilin, the owner of this birthday party tonight, has an extraordinary status.
Fly-To-The-Sky, namely, the flying teenager, means the dream and hope of flying in the future. It is a singing group launched by S.M Entertainment in the early years. It consists of two big boys, Brian and Fany, who have singing skills and charming appearance.
Compared with the Dongfang Shenqi who has just started, Fly-To-The-Sky is already a veteran group. He debuted on November 21, 1999 and has been in the industry for nearly five years.
They were the first R&B and Hip-Hop boy duet in South Korea. Before them, most of the Korean duo groups only focused on dancing or singing, and never had both. However, in addition to their excellent singing skills, the two members of Fly-To-The-Sky were perfect in harmony, and their rap and dance skills were also outstanding.
Regarding this, they will show it in the variety shows "Love Letter" and "X-Man" soon. In fact, many people also learned about Brain and Fany through these two variety shows. Jin Cheng was like this in his previous life.
As far as Kim Jong-sung knows, Fly-To-The-Sky is also considered a relatively long-lived boy group in South Korea.
It was not until April 12, 2009 that Fly-To-The-Sky held a farewell performance in SBS's "Popular Songs", which ended the 10-year-old group event. After that, the two members of the group will each carry out their own activities. Brian will continue the singer activities as Solo, and Fany will devote himself to acting activities.
Moreover, five years later, on May 20, 2014, after five years of Solo, Fly-To-The-Sky returned with the regular 9th album "Continuum" and started the combination activity again.
Although Fly-To-The-Sky seems to be very long-lived, its development has not been smooth. In the first few years, especially during the "Love Letter" and "X-Man", Brain and Fany's outstanding personal talents were quite prosperous, but overall it was still relatively dull.
Perhaps because of this, S.M Entertainment, which has always followed the indifferent interests, abandoned Fly-To-The-Sky halfway, and later the group joined the Pfull (now H2-Mesia) brokerage company.
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While combing through these information in his mind, Jin Jingcheng took Tiehu to the door of House-Of-Jazz.
However, when Jin Jingcheng was about to walk into the jazz bar, he was intercepted by four black-clad bodyguards at the door.
A black-clad bodyguard in the lead first extended his hand to Jin Jingcheng and said politely: "Hello, please show your invitation."
"Invitation letter?" Jin Jingcheng was a little surprised. He looked at Tiehu behind him. Tiehu shook his head awkwardly. Obviously, he didn't know that there would be an invitation letter to attend this birthday party tonight, and Kim Dong-woo did not mention this to him.
It's no wonder, how could a person with a personality like Kim Dong-woo care about these small details? Not to mention anything else, when he attends banquets and parties on weekdays, even if he is high-end, he usually doesn't need to show any invitation letters, just just scan his face. If it really doesn't work, no one dares to stop him by reporting his name.
"Sorry, we don't have an invitation letter." Jin Jingcheng said truthfully.
Chapter completed!