do you like jazz???
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Ninjaboy said:just a few reccomendations tho
i bet some of the experimental stuff i listen to would be called jazz by jazz people
The 'It's the new thing!' comp on Soul Jazz blew me away.
DJ Squelch
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Ninjaboy said:see whats going on in jazz, people wibbling with instruments for 1 hour improvisations
music without corners etc
Niiice!
marsalis isn't a wanker - he just know what he wants to do, and is pretty much peerless at it.poului said:
we went to the last night of his residency at the jazz cafe in 2003, and it was one of the finest, and most joyous, gigs i've ever been to.
i think a lot of people see jazz as too serious. it isn't - the improvisation in a quality jazz gig should be playful and entertaining, as well as musically interesting and enjoyable. it has been at all the good jazz gigs i've been to.
why should he? if he feels (as i believe he does) that some of the ore experimental stuff damages the reputation and development of 'true' jazz, then he has every right to speak about it. just as you have every right to disagree with him... i don't see how that makes him a wanker though - as i say, he simply knows what he wants to do.poului said:
what's your view on django bates btw? (a completely unrelated question...)
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Spinal Tap A-Z said:
Tee hee hee...
Jazz doesn't do anything for me, never has - I can put up with trad jazz as background music but as soon as the live free-form jazz starts I'm looking for the exits.
I like the *idea* of jazz and I guess I'm glad it exists - must be an acquired taste, but with all the other good music out there I don't know why anybody would spend years deliberately trying to acquire a taste for jazz unless they were shipwrecked on Jazz Island.
I like the *idea* of jazz and I guess I'm glad it exists - must be an acquired taste, but with all the other good music out there I don't know why anybody would spend years deliberately trying to acquire a taste for jazz unless they were shipwrecked on Jazz Island.
I see people are making the absurd assumption that Jazz is in someway 'music'.
This leads to endless confusion as to over whether it's good or bad.
I loathe the noise I consider it to be a potential disturbance to pure sounds, like cross-channel ferry diesels.
This is not to say jazz is 'bad'. I just don't know what it is. Much like partial differential calculus.
This leads to endless confusion as to over whether it's good or bad.
I loathe the noise I consider it to be a potential disturbance to pure sounds, like cross-channel ferry diesels.
This is not to say jazz is 'bad'. I just don't know what it is. Much like partial differential calculus.
Doesn't have to be though all the time though does it? Can be quiet, sad, troubled, etc. Also, statistically, quite likely to be shit at any one time, unless they're taking no risks.killer b said:
Same reason you might acquire a taste in anything else- after a certain amount of effort it becomes rewarding. How much effort will depend on lots of stuff...Yossarian said:
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Is there a correlation with the length of beards/hair of the band in this analysis?
Yes.kyser_soze said:
To a first approximation
Ps=J*b*n*e*t/c
where J is jazz constant (experimentally determined)
b is beard length
c is percentage of chin covered by beard
n is average no of necks on guitar
e is percentage of band playing with eyes closed
t is corduroy trouser factor
Ninjaboy said:
Not everyone's cup of tea, but a few personal recommendations for 'interesting' jazz - all haunting and/or chill out stuff (won't appeal to the junglist!). Broken the links but all the below have free downloads or previews:
Jan Garbarek: with The Hilliard Ensemble - Officium. Chambermusic+jazz sax. Guess you'd need to like classical to appreciate it, def falls in the 'interesting' category though.
http: //www.musicolog.com/garbarek_about.asp (go to auditorium for tracks)
Barbara Thompson's Songs From The Centre of the Earth. Haunting sax recorded in a French monastery.
http: //www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,174889,00.html
Keiko Matsui - worth listening to some of the downloads available here:
http: //www.mp3.com/keiko-matsui/artists/6018/discography.html
No-one's mentioned 'Noodles' yet.....
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