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Real jazz or Sears jazz?
Every jazz artist has produced tunes you could label as smooth, from Miles to Coltrane and etc etc
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Real poncho jazz. No foolin'.
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Like everyone I have my own set of musical preferences. I did not like Metal until I listened to Metallica. I did not like traditional country until I listened to Johnny Cash. I did not like Motown until I listened to Stevie and Marvin. And the list goes on. Eventually I got tired of listening to Abbey Road and YES prog rock. Jazz is incredibly diverse. I personally love later Miles Davis albums that experiment with sound. My girlfriend thinks it sounds like chaotic noise. But she loves Amy Winehouse, who I think is lounge pop jazz, in a good way. To me it’s all jazz, sort of.
Show me an example? or name one from those
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Bye Bye Blackbird by Miles Davis is a great little masterpiece.
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Without even going deep, any early Miles Davis stuff. Bill Evans who played on that album I’d call smooth and has many solo examples. Kenny G, who I hate, could be called smooth I suppose. Or I’m from Rochester NY, our hometown jazz guy is Chuck Mangione, he was smooth. A bit too smooth for me, but definitely smooth. One of the best SNL performances I’ve ever seen Sting had Branford Marsalis do a solo that was sooooo smooooth.
I'll try even if it's complicated for me...
Listening to jazz gives me the idea of looking out the window* and seeing a succession of different landscapes, colours, shapes...this has led me to abandon more and more pop rock and classical, closed in a rigid form that unfortunately has very little to say these days.
I'm no longer interested in words, endlessly repeated, they bore me, I much prefer notes to be interpreted with the mind.
I had the same journey with art a few years ago, when bored of fake landscapes and fake figures I fell back on the great classics of modern art free from patterns and frames...
*of the vehicle you prefer, the sensation must be of movement..
Listening to jazz gives me the idea of looking out the window* and seeing a succession of different landscapes, colours, shapes...this has led me to abandon more and more pop rock and classical, closed in a rigid form that unfortunately has very little to say these days.
I'm no longer interested in words, endlessly repeated, they bore me, I much prefer notes to be interpreted with the mind.
I had the same journey with art a few years ago, when bored of fake landscapes and fake figures I fell back on the great classics of modern art free from patterns and frames...
*of the vehicle you prefer, the sensation must be of movement..
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Maybe a little too far for my taste.
But your take on it is yours. I’d rather not think on it as people who don’t love jazz don’t “understand” it. Or that listening to jazz or classical music is any way the benchmark for understaning music. I heard an interview with Billy Joel on Stern. He listens to classical to inspire him. Someone else might listen to Sex Pistols. It’s all Good.
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All of kind of blue or escalator to the gallows
The Hartman - Coltrane set is just heartbreaking in the good sense of pathos. The Bad Plus is exploratory jazz that is uplifting. Thanks for posting.
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A Jazz trio is Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.
I posted on the topic previously. But for the lazy searchers, there's "Miles for Lovers" or Coltrane's collaboration with Johnny Hartman (a total classic) and many... many... others. Bill Evans' "Waltz for Debbie" - is that experimental jazz? Nope. As always with music, being blind-folded is an impediment to discover new things.
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I do not see, https://www.audiosciencereview.com/.../43640175/&q=miles+davis+pablolie&o=relevance
oh, My One and Only Love? Coltrane and Hartman
I think I can see the entire Modern Jazz Quartet rolling in their graves in response to that allegation. For most of its history the MJQ consisted of John Lewis (piano), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (double bass), and Connie Kay (drums). No sax; all jazz.
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