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Posted by Warm Worm on January 9, 2008, 6:37 pm
"Don"
> "Edgar"
>> "Don"
>>>
>>> "Edgar"
>>>> "Don"
>>>>>I don't get it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What's not to get?
>>>>
>>>>
http://www.outsideshore.com/school/music/almanac/html/Elements_Of_Jazz/index.htm
>>>>
>>>> swing rhythm and improvisation, along with a live performance you will
>>>> never see or hear again.
>>>
>>> I've only seen the stuff a few times and it looks and sounds like
>>> everybody is doing something different, nothing matches or harmonizes.
>>> Scattered all over the place.
>>> I think a dood named Stanley Jordan is supposed to be a jazz player and
>>> I've only seen him once and it popped my eyes outta the sockets.
>>> He is a bass player and was playing by himself and he was, get this,
>>> playing TWO bass guitars at the same time, one with each hand.
>>> Tapping on one and fingering chords on the other.
>>> afuckingmazing.
>>> He did Stairway to Heaven and tore it a new one.
>>> If you get the chance check him out in solo mode, you won't believe it.
>>>
>>
>> It really can and will be all over the place. Thelonius Monk has always
>> made me scratch my head (in a good way), as to what the hell he was
>> thinking. But the thing is, a lot of it is NOT thinking, it is just
>> doing. That to me is improvisation. Where you get to the point where you
>> just know the scales to play in. It becomes second nature and what you
>> do then is just let out whatever it is you have inside.
>
> I know scales and how to improvise, intimately, but jazz still doesn't
> make sense to me.
> Maybe I haven't seen enough of it.
Jazz, like any category of music, contains works that I like-- that move
me-- and some that don't.
I think it mostly has to do with the chords, or the harmonic structure.
Interestingly, I seem to almost prefer some forms of Jazz as background
music/"noise" that I don't entirely concentrate on, such as if I'm doing
something else, especially like socializing.
On the other hand, some tunes (no matter the genre) I prefer to focus on
with little or no interruption, and to listen to alone or at least with
others who are doing the same thing.
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