Jazz

[Zippy]

Played in a trad jazz band years ago. Was the youngest member by thirty years at least. I could put up with having to wear a red shirt and sequined waistcoast when I got paid for my first gig, without a doubt an hourly rate most on here would consider a good daily rate.

Hated the feckin music but paid so well, just like some contractor gigs I've done.

<cough> Murph and the Magictones </cough>

[OwlHoot]

It provides a technically intricate but soulless form of music. ...

Well put, and one can say the same of a lot of "classical" music.

For example, I can't fathom the appeal of Gorecki's music - It just sounds like a lot of dreary monotonous variations on scales.

[Doggy Styles]

I think it provides a technically intricate but soulless form of music. I think this allows emotional cripples who think they're clever to feel a sense of cultural belonging.

FTFY

I only did that to say it's a matter of taste. The open- minded would appreciate most types of music, even if they don't particularly like it themselves.

I'm not a jazz afficionado myself, but I like some of it. Mozart bores me to tears, but I could never argue that it's not good stuff, especially as so many enjoy it.

[BlasterBates]

Of the improvised types of music it is the hardest to do. Of course you can be a virtuoso heavy metal guitarist, that can´t easily be copied, but the thing about Jazz is "ordinary" jazz is very difficult to do. Any guitarist can do heavy metal, but hardly any would be able to do a decent jazz number, and that´s because it´s difficult.

If you just want to improve your playing skills, even if it is totally different genre, then learning jazz is a good idea.

[doodab]

It's true that a lot of jazz is a bit wanky, but there are some things that you just can't not like. Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong and so on. And this always makes me smile.

[OwlHoot]

It's true that a lot of jazz is a bit wanky, but there are some things that you just can't not like. Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong and so on. And this always makes me smile.

I like "stately" jazz (for want of a better word), the kind one might hear in a Laurel and Hardy film, and exuberant jazz, maybe Glen Miller sort of stuff.

But to me the wanky stuff, is what sounds like a steady stream of jazzy extemporizing - tricky to do "well" perhaps, but boring and uninspiring nonetheless (IMHO).

[Old Greg]

It's true that a lot of jazz is a bit wanky, but there are some things that you just can't not like. Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong and so on. And this always makes me smile.

But I love Nina Simone! Please don't tell me that's jazz or I'll have to make some mental adjustments and I'm not up to that right now.

[DS23]

What is the point of Jazz music?

you might just as well say "what is the point of rock'n'roll music?" or "what is the point of punk music?". jazz, in its original inception was a young and ribald dance led musical movement. it has morphed over the last 100 years into many different genres with improvisation and syncopation as probably its most consistent aspects. but you knew that shirley.

[minestrone]

you might just as well say "what is the point of rock'n'roll music?" or "what is the point of punk music?". jazz, in its original inception was a young and ribald dance led musical movement. it has morphed over the last 100 years into many different genres with improvisation and syncopation as probably its most consistent aspects. but you knew that shirley.

Shoobe do Dm7 ba ba is not pretty music. Noodling for the enjoyment of musicians, nothing more, nothing less.

[Bunk]

I think drugs might help. Kerouac made jazz seem amazing in On the Road, but he was off his tits on Benzedrine.