Jazz?

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:34 pm

(This topic was split from the Grubb forum.)

I'm afraid I don't like jazz.

Post by **Jnyusa** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:55 pm

I do, but only when it's performed live.

Dean Sanborn recordings ..... pfffffffft.

Jn

Post by **vison** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:14 pm

Of all the various kinds of music humankind has created, I confess that Jazz is my least favourite. I always assumed it's because I'm too ordinary to like it, it seems to me you have to be a cool city dweller who has five degrees in Political Science, a spouse of a different colour than you, and the owner of a dog of a breed no one else on earth has ever heard of.

Post by **Alatar** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:22 pm

Jazz is a little like traditional Irish music. It has to be listened to live. Unless you're talking Jazz/Rock fusion. I adore Stings more recent work and it can only be described as Jazz.

Post by **Holbytla** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:23 pm

There is jazz and there is jazz.
I like the swing kind of jazz. The Ella Fitgerald kind of jazz.
The rest of the stuff with its off tempo chaotic dischord makes me batty.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:30 pm

Me, too, Holby. If it's got a melody, I usually like it. It's the "weedly-deedly SQUEAK!" stuff that I can't enjoy.

Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:51 pm

<Scratches Ornette Coleman recordings off list of potential Prim presents.>

Post by **Sassafras** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:51 pm

Post by **Sunsilver** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:06 pm

vison wrote:Of all the various kinds of music humankind has created, I confess that Jazz is my least favourite. I always assumed it's because I'm too ordinary to like it, it seems to me you have to be a cool city dweller who has five degrees in Political Science, a spouse of a different colour than you, and the owner of a dog of a breed no one else on earth has ever heard of.

[nods in agreement]

Except I would also add a few other kinds of music, namely, most opera music [sorry, if that makes me a Philistine, so be it!] rap, hip-hop, and any form of 'music' that consists of the 'singer' screaming incomprehensible lyrics consisting mostly of swear words.

Okay, some jazz is pretty good. Lou Armstrong. Ella Fitzgerald. Della Reese...I think some of her stuff counts as jazz. Ray Charles. Stuff where you can hear the lyrics, sing along, and maybe dance to it, if you're so inclined.

Post by **Sassafras** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:26 pm

<checks thread title>

<giggles>

Osgiliation at its finest!
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You DON'T like JAZZ!!!

Miles Davies, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Parker, John Coltrain, MJQ, Monk, Billie Holiday ...

and that's just a tip of the iceberg.

Genius. Every single one of 'em.

Oh, and Sunny, I agree (exepting opera, which I love) 'gangsta rap' is not music. It's mindless, mostly misogynist, not-even-particularly-rythmic noise.

Post by **Erunáme** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:33 pm

While I don't at all like gansta rap, I do have to say it most definately is music.

But, it is horrible music.

Post by **Sunsilver** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:33 pm

Hey, Sassy, I did list some jazz artists that I DO like. Lou Armstrong got the honour of doing both the first AND last numbers at our wedding: "Be My Life's Companion", and "Moon River." Okay, can't really call "Moon River' 'jazz', but I think the other title would qualify!

And yup, osgiliatin' away here!

Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:37 pm

Tito Puente!

Sass, I agree with you about gangsta rap, but there is some (just a little bit) of very excellent, innovative hip hop music out there.

Post by **Sassafras** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:43 pm

*sw00ns for Tito Puente and Salsa*

Fania All-Stars, anybody?

an infinitesimal amount of hip-hop can be considered 'music' IMNSHO.

Post by **Erunáme** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:51 pm

*remembers that gansta rap was in her history of music textbook*

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:01 am

Post by **tinwë** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:09 am

Like so many other things in life (art and religion come to mind) I am willing to allow people their own beliefs. So, if someone believes that gangsta rap is music, that’s fine with me.

For myself, it’s largely a matter of timing and mood with rap and hip-hop. If I’m in the mood for it (which, I admit, I am at times) than I do like some of it. When I’m not in the mood I find it to be terribly annoying.

Personal tastes in music don’t seem to follow any rational logic though. For instance, my least favorite type of music is country, but my (second) favorite is Bluegrass.

My favorite is Led Zeppelin. (Yes, that is a “type” of music, in my opinion).

Go figure.

Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:12 am

Is it time ...

... to split off this discussion about music into the Cottage of Lost Play forum?

Post by **Sassafras** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:14 am

textbooks undergo frequent revision, Eru, and furthermore do not supplant my opinion on the matter which is LAW!

*wraps shawl around Prim's ancient shoulders*

There, there, dear <conciliatory pat> don't take on so.

It's all in the mind, you know.

Edit: Yes, 'tis Voronwë. Wanna do the honours?

Post by **Impenitent** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:27 am

Vison wrote:t seems to me you have to be a cool city dweller who has five degrees in Political Science, a spouse of a different colour than you, and the owner of a dog of a breed no one else on earth has ever heard of.

I don't know about cool (or kewl!

), but I'm a city dweller who gets all itchy if I spend too much time away from the noise and hustle - but I don't got political science, a spouse of yellow or gree, nor ever owned a dawggie....but I do love jazz, in just about all of its manifestations, including all those 'fusions': jazz/rock, jazz/blues, jazz/world, jazz swing, classical jazz, jazz guitar, jazz piano, jazz, jazz, jazz...

In fact, we've nicknamed our son Jazz!