Or does it just smell funny, like Zappa said?
I want to know why it scares a lot of people... I get scared by repetitive tunes. I don't get specific tunes stuck in my head, just noises... Jazz helps to keep my brain on its toes. Who loves jazz fusion? =oD
2007-08-28 06:20:41 · 14 answers · asked by Fireʍɐʇǝɹ 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Jazz
I dunno man, I love the traditional stuff, but I'm much more into the sort of thing that you'd never come across unless you were really looking. Artists like the Pat Metheney group and Greg Howe, really chilling stuff, and pretty groovy too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRZ3EZZUOV0
2007-08-28 06:41:02 · update #1
Considering the zero airplay jazz music gets, particularly modern stuff, I'd say it's in pretty fine health. Yes you do have to actively look for new acts, but that's half the fun. I'm a huge Pat Metheny fan, I've seen him live four times now, including last month with Brad Mehldau..FANTASTIC!
Jazz is far more liberating to the soul to listen to than the repetative 4/4 of most rock music & I love it for that.
The reason most people don't like it is because it's often far more challenging to the ear, it doesn't all sound the same. Nobody else sounds like Pat Metheny, or Keith Jarret, or Jan Garbarek etc. It certainly floats my boat!!
To quote the Great Man again..MAKE A JAZZ NOISE!!
2007-08-28 11:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That link that you posted was pretty amazing. Those were some super musicians.
I live near Manhattan. I can tell you that jazz is alive. Its on a small scale, but the quality is very good. Its a new sound too. Way too good for the masses.
I'm more of a mid to late 1960's jazz fanatic. I like Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Sam Rivers, Jaki Byard. But I did see Jeff Beck in concert, about 10 years ago. Wow!
2007-08-28 14:16:12 · answer #2 · answered by Teaim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I saw Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley playing an outdoor gig in Blagdon yesterday afternoon. The audience was a bit small. But the guys were smokin'
2007-08-28 13:30:02 · answer #3 · answered by CuriousJ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No way
and Jazz Fusion rocks
I play trumpet and I either want to start a prog rock band where I play keys or a fusion band with a trumpet
2007-08-28 17:51:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I play in a jazz big band (trombone 1 & 2). I'm not dead. Neither is the music we play, nor the crowds that come to listen to us when we play.
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2007-08-28 13:45:12 · answer #5 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To quote a radio DJ, musical genres can be compared to various landscapes. You can have the rocky landscape of rock music. You can have the beach landscape of reggae music. You can have the factory machine landscape of techno music. Jazz, however, is a distant alien planet with an unbreathable atmosphere.
2007-08-28 13:31:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no jazz is not dead! in fact we have our own local jazz club called jazzerie. we also have an awesome jazz band at our school that recently went to europe (france and switzerland) to perform. i think montreux jazz sponsored them, too.
2007-08-28 13:30:29 · answer #7 · answered by drpepperandcats 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
nope nope nope
The Bad Plus' new album is pretty recent
it isn't dead to me!
2007-08-28 14:38:50 · answer #8 · answered by inkí 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's alive and well and living on "The Jazz" on digital radio!
2007-08-28 13:28:11 · answer #9 · answered by Greybeard 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to me it just sounds like needless exercises in scales and drum solos
weren't the originals doing heroin and stuff?
that helped to enjoy it Im sure
2007-08-28 13:37:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋