YOU’RE NOT MAKING IT BETTER.
Is that country? I know what I like, but sometimes I'm not entirely sure what genre it is.
Im only dipping my toe into jazz coming more from a rock/ alternative background (listener- zero playing ability). But its easy to hear exactly what you mention in the jam band type stuff (Allman Bros etc) as well as some of the more leftfield alternative stuff. Makes Jazz easier to stomach than if coming at it from more a pop/ indie background.In my experience, the average music listener doesn't have enough depth of music knowledge to understand group improvisation and theme / motif evolution, along with intra musician signalling.
I can't blame them for their ignorance given the state of pop music these days and drastic cuts to musical education.
It's got a girl in a gingham dress and a harmonica....
It's more old school country than most modern country.
Im only dipping my toe into jazz coming more from a rock/ alternative background (listener- zero playing ability). But its easy to hear exactly what you mention in the jam band type stuff (Allman Bros etc) as well as some of the more leftfield alternative stuff. Makes Jazz easier to stomach than if coming at it from more a pop/ indie background.
Be interesting to see what a dance music fan would make of some of the wilder bop type jazz!
Yes, coming from jam band listening helps a lot.
Kamasi Washington is a good bridge for those used to listening to jam bands.
Or 'jazz fusion' stuff from the 1970s.
And some Grateful Dead albums were sometimes dual tagged as jazz.
On the other hand, hard bop seems tough for a lot of people to 'get'; my wife calls it 'noisy'.
Kamasi stuff is great. Ive added Bitches Brew to my list but not yet heard any (the epitome of 70s fusion?) . I can enjoy Kind of Blue/ Love Supreme etc (lets call them the standards) if they creep up on me but not yet at the point where I can start a listening session with jazz. But I dont skip automatically if it comes on Shuffle . These days I only ever shuffle.
In my experience, the average music listener doesn't have enough depth of music knowledge to understand group improvisation and theme / motif evolution, along with intra musician signalling.
I can't blame them for their ignorance given the state of pop music these days and drastic cuts to musical education.
I think the "the reason you don't like it because you're not intelligent/sophisticated/educated/discerning/etc.. enough" argument smacks just a teensy, weensy bit of elitism.
Jazz is for people that can play an instrument, sometimes really well, and want to be in a band, but haven't figured out how to play the same tune as everyone else.
Personally, I'm a little dubious about the ability to learn to actually like something, appreciate or tolerate, possibly.
With music, food and art, I don't really want to have to concentrate and illicit a cerebral respone, I want a visceral, emotional response, an instant hit.
Also for audio shows to play something that no one who enters it the room is familiar with and won't linger.
Personally, I'm a little dubious about the ability to learn to actually like something, appreciate or tolerate, possibly.
With music, food and art, I don't really want to have to concentrate and illicit a cerebral respone, I want a visceral, emotional response, an instant hit.
Now ill happily disagree on that. Some of the flavours, music, drink even literature I love the most are ones my first reaction to was a solid "no thanks" but for whatever reason, re-sampled. I'm not talking about me as a child to me as an adult.
I'm struggling to think of something that has really grown on me, I genuinely can't think of a food, drink, album or painting that I once dislliked and now do.