Jazz for aficionados
You know it's a funny thing that everybody is playing with the word "Soul" since Dave Brubeck, but I don't care how you flip it, you can not connect the word soul with Dave Brubeck's music; that's not a bad thing, just a fact. Here we have the word used again, and we can hear it; you can not connect the word with the music unless somehow you can hear it; if you think it's applicable to Dave's music, that's fine with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJPqM3xHEi8 |
I know Rok is about to explode by now as a result of our choice in music. As a result of my condition I seem to prefer meditative music; "Kitaro" even. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXZPaIl6us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP6Oa9B6QSE&index=11&list=RD8gXZPaIl6us I've had a ton of tests but have yet to talk to the doctor as to what the results mean, so I don't know much more than you about my present condition, but I will inform you when I know something. |
*****I know Rok is about to explode by now as a result of our choice in music.***** Nah, I have gotten used to this assault upon real Jazz. It's been going on for over 5 years now. *****Wait a minute, did I just see a Brubeck video with both Body and Soul?***** No, those were pigs you saw flying. Cheers |
According to Joshua Redman, what people have called jazz over the years has changed so much. I definitely don't define jazz as a style or set of styles, because the stylistic components of it will always be changing. I don't know whether you agree Joe (Joe Lovano) but there are certain things like swing, that are crucial components of jazz and almost anything I would call jazz has something of that. The improvisational attitude, bringing your life experienceto the music, that is the key thing, not the stylistic elements. What Joshua said sounds pretty good to me, but I'm not in the defining business, I'm a listener, and when I listen to current music called jazz, it just don't cut it. No longer am I going to listen and try to make sense out of it, I don't have that much time. While there are exceptions to that, they are too few and far in between for me to bother. Recently, almost every day, someone is posting old jazz that's new to me, and it sounds like my kind of music; consequently, I am not going to waste another minute or peso investing in "new jazz", case closed. |
