The Jazz Thread

HughPhug said:
I was listening to this just last night.

Frank Sinatra's album with Count Bassie is phenomenal as well
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At the Sands is one of my favorite live albums. Sinatra, Basie and Quincy...can't top that.

Sammy's record with the Count is great too.
 
RichardPriors said:
At the Sands is one of my favorite live albums. Sinatra, Basie and Quincy...can't top that.

Sammy's record with the Count is great too.
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Hmmmm, I don't think I have that Sammy/Basie album. I will go digging right now
 
It’s the most important art that is native to the USA.
 
TS is a romo. Change my mind.
 
Ultra O’Dia said:
Also my feelings Malmstein and Satriani
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I view these two as very different personally, Malmstien is so self important and joyless dispite being cheesey, Satriani on the other hand embraces the Bill and Ted cheese and is a good writer of those kinds of catchy melodies.



Honestly I think a big issue with Jazz is that you need to develop an ear for it. By that I don't mean you need to be a musician, I know fuck all about the technical side of music but as a listener it definitely took time to appreciate jazz, to start to pickup on the complexities involved. I remember listening to A Love Supreme aged 18 and really not getting it at all but 5-10 years latter having a totally different reaction.
 
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bootsy said:
That’s a tough one, but I do believe it is.
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Interesting. I’ve always leaned to Blues, but I think that’s because I’m more guitar/ bass centric in what I listen to and play, and how much it has been highlighted as influencing British and American rock
 
Absolut said:
You think more than Blues?
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Damn, that's a good point. I'll preface it by saying I appreciate the Blues but don't really listen to it--Jazz is my go to music to listen to. I think people will continue to listen to it and appreciate it the way Classical music has had (and I'm sure will continue to have) a fervent following for centuries.

I think the Blues' has had a greater influence on music listened to more people. Everything from Rock to Bluegrass to Country owes its roots to the Blues.

As a pure form, I think Jazz is more important a music performed and loved by more people than the Blues but as a foundational/influential tradition, the Blues is more important.

Hard question to answer.
 
Quite a few metal bands use metal phrasing or chords to make themselves distinctly different from other "flowchart" bands in the genre. If you don't like Jazz, understand it's influence and incorporation into other genres.

 
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What kind of jazz?

I can admit much of it is a bit too much, but as a genre, it has so much going for it. There is no such thing as a bad jazz musician, either. They shitcan you quicker than any other genre if you are not up to snuff.
 
Violent Violin said:
Damn, that's a good point. I'll preface it by saying I appreciate the Blues but don't really listen to it--Jazz is my go to music to listen to. I think people will continue to listen to it and appreciate it the way Classical music has had (and I'm sure will continue to have) a fervent following for centuries.

I think the Blues' has had a greater influence on music listened to more people. Everything from Rock to Bluegrass to Country owes its roots to the Blues.

As a pure form, I think Jazz is more important a music performed and loved by more people than the Blues but as a foundational/influential tradition, the Blues is more important.

Hard question to answer.
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I mean I think you could argue Jazz, Rock and Roll, etc are all subdivisions of Blues.
 
The blues is a huge part of jazz I feel, and can often say much more to me even though it has no words

Would I be wrong to say John Coltrane played the blues? Ignoring musical genres and definitions?

I always felt his jazz defined the blues
 
Good points all. Kind of depends at what point a musical genre has fully separated from it's progenitors...

And this: ;)

 
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