Public Service Thread: Do you hate jazz? Vent spleen here.

munckee

Greatape said:

munckee said:

It’s music devoid of passion to my ears. I like music to be angry or sad or uplifting or something not just a random collection of notes. 

4th floor for me please mate : )

Litterick

'I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.'
Paul Desmond.

merlin

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Taylor Swift IS a fat old dildo. So.....

Oh yeah, I forgot that....

Greatape

munckee said:

Greatape said:

munckee said:

It’s music devoid of passion to my ears. I like music to be angry or sad or uplifting or something not just a random collection of notes. 

4th floor for me please mate : )

Lingerie and plumbing? Certainly sir

robinbowes

Greatape said:

munckee said:

It’s music devoid of passion to my ears. I like music to be angry or sad or uplifting or something not just a random collection of notes. 

Beautiful.

Jalapeno

Philly_Q said:

Jalapeno said:

Coltrane: I don't know how to stop (solos)

Miles: Try taking the fucking horn out of your mouth

Is that a true/legendary anecdote, or just a joke?

It's widely reported as a quote.

rogd

monquixote said:

I don't understand it's the perfect compliment to a JB. 

Its not bad with a BJ either!!

Blackdream

Fretwired

The legend that was Derek Bailey ...

Philly_Q

Fretwired said:

The legend that was Derek Bailey ...

I watched all the way to the end to see the bit where the crowd applauded... but it never got there.

Mattharrier

You know why they called it jazz, don't you?

The word "crap" was already taken, da-bum tish.

I'm no lover of jazz; as with many in here, I don't find the thousand-notes-crammed-into-four-bars thing very musical, although - particularly as I learn more about playing guitar - I can recognise the incredible skills on display.

My main issue is that I find it very frustrating when someone is moving around, over, through and between the tune but never really actually playing it - my brain wants to follow the melody and a lot of jazz doesn't really do that in the way my brain wants it to (I have a similar issue with stand up comedy, oddly enough - when someone starts a joke but then keeps diverting away from it on tangents, I just want them to tell the joke they started, and when they finally do - if they ever get back to it - it's rarely worth the wait). Improvising on a melody is one thing, but when everything is improv, and none of it is the melody, it's not for me.

Blueingreen

I'm a jazz fan but I have a real ambivalence about some aspects of it. Noel Gallagher's definition of jazz as 5 guys on a stage having a better time than the audience obviously isn't the whole truth, but there's enough truth in it to make any honest jazz fan wince.

viz

Jazz is a bit like stilton. It grows on you. 

Fretwired

Philly_Q said:

Fretwired said:

The legend that was Derek Bailey ...

I watched all the way to the end to see the bit where the crowd applauded... but it never got there.

Applause .. this is jazz ... I suck ..

Brad

I love most of types of Jazz, but I have to draw the line at Smooth Jazz. I can just about stomach it when George Benson does it, probably due to the force of his personality and how much I love his playing (and singing.) Honourable mention to Paul Jackson Jr too. But I t’s just too syrupy and errr… smooth! 

proggy

Philly_Q said:

Fretwired said:

The legend that was Derek Bailey ...

I watched all the way to the end to see the bit where the crowd applauded... but it never got there.

Playing For His Friends!

I wonder how bad he plays for his enemies.