bloodshoteyed
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well, there's at least some truth to it...
Agree, jazz was the dance music of its time, now supplanted by other formats.Jazz was popular when it was easy to listen and dance to and less complex, like Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller. Same is true for classical (think of Johann Strauß and Puccini operas).
In the words of the great Joey Ramone : One chord is just fine, man. Two chords you're pushin' it. Three and you're into jazz.I'm a jazz fanatic. Love Jazz from Coltrane, Oscar Peterson, bebop, blues, swing and even Fusion. However, I never acquired a taste for free form, avant garde Jazz. My wife on the other hand never enjoyed it. Her most common question is "why are there so many notes?"
If your favorite musician is the Boss or hard rock and your musical training is mostly made of attending rock concerts then Jazz may be a foreign dish. But as someone who has studied jazz recordings, spent thousands of hours practicing jazz improvisation patterns and loved listening to performers pulling tremendous solos out of the air, I can say - Jazz is as much mental gymnastics as a wonderful intelligent musical style. It takes a great ear, intuition, heart, soul and practicing day and night until the music just clicks. And a few musicians can take it to an unbelievable satisfying listening session where I am simply blown away with the alternate melodic passages of powerfully gifted performers.
I can only really enjoy jazz (not every style) since I started playing drums 2 years ago.Then it doesn't really explain the why so many liked it during its heyday and fewer now.
I think there huge debates over what is jazz. My streaming service of choice, Qobuz, has a lot of what I call jazz and they call some jazzy pop music jazz. One has to be open minded about jazz and like what you like. All jazz must have improvisation by musicians but how much and what kind is difficult to define, so the borders overlap with other styles and other styles can be and do get interpreted in a jazz format.”Jazz” covers such a wide variety of music I find it hard to make any generalization that fits.
I mean, fit Bill Charlap, Bix Beiderbecke, James Blood Ulmer, David Sanborn, Pat Metheny, Keith Jarrett, and all these new minimalist Scandinavian jazz ensembles into one thought.
Qobuz had Barbara Thompson down as bebop last time I looked. There's lots of genre misclassification out there...I think there huge debates over what is jazz. My streaming service of choice, Qobuz, has a lot of what I call jazz and they call some jazzy pop music jazz. One has to be open minded about jazz and like what you like. All jazz must have improvisation by musicians but how much and what kind is difficult to define, so the borders overlap with other styles and other styles can be and do get interpreted in a jazz format.
But all the artists I mentioned unambiguously fit in “Jazz” by conventional definition.I think there huge debates over what is jazz. My streaming service of choice, Qobuz, has a lot of what I call jazz and they call some jazzy pop music jazz. One has to be open minded about jazz and like what you like. All jazz must have improvisation by musicians but how much and what kind is difficult to define, so the borders overlap with other styles and other styles can be and do get interpreted in a jazz format.
Yes very much so and jazz has great variety, even for purests.But all the artists I mentioned unambiguously fit in “Jazz” by conventional definition.
Improvisation.”Jazz” covers such a wide variety of music I find it hard to make any generalization that fits.
I mean, fit Bill Charlap, Bix Beiderbecke, Oscar Peterson,James Blood Ulmer, Miles Davis, Anthony Braxton, Charlie McBride, Spyro Gyra, Weather Report, David Sanborn, Pat Metheny, Freddie Hubbard, John McLaughlin,Ornette Coleman, Art Blakey, Keith Jarrett, and all these new minimalist Scandinavian jazz ensembles into one thought.
Perhaps, but improvisation is not exclusive to Jazz.Improvisation.
But if it isn't jazz, it's usually called a bum note.Perhaps, but improvisation is not exclusive to Jazz.
Cos' We're the King of the Jungle, a Jungle VIP.Fascinating clip investigating human evolution, the physics of neurons, information theory, and thermodynamics to explain why some humans enjoy dissonances and complex forms of music:
For me, I can't do Country music. Although, you play it backwards and your wife comes back, crops come in, and you didn't spill your beer. Joking, to each his own.Well as at least one human I can say there is no form of music I dislike more than Jazz.
That is interesting about ratios at 5:34 and 12:04. I wonder if a similar thing applies to visual perception like with aspect ratios in movies, screens and photography. (Or perhaps I'm just looking for a reason to not like 16:9 as a display standard).Fascinating clip investigating human evolution, the physics of neurons, information theory, and thermodynamics to explain why some humans enjoy dissonances and complex forms of music: