As I find myself yet again hunched over my laptop in the "little vomit dog cafe" (so named because a little dog vomited on me the first time I sat here) , I am reminded by what's playing in my peripheral hearing how much I don't get jazz music.
I just don't get it.
Where are the aesthetics? I don't necessarily need all my music to be melodic. I sit up and pay close attention to anything experimental, I am a rule-bender from way back myself. What's more, I like all kinds of music that the majority of people would categorize as 'an acquired taste'.
I can handle chaos, sometimes even revel in it. I don't have a problem with music that doesn't follow any particular direction, but it should at least sound like eventually it will lead to somewhere pleasant! Instead, it sounds like a surly bunch of brass instruments engaged in a heated altercation on Jerry Springer. My imagination conjures a scene in which a stage is filled with musicians constantly clambering for the spotlight, using their saxophone or trumpet or piano or whatever means necessary, to be heard over the top of everyone else. The sound that is emulated from such a melee is audial terrorism! At the very least, an affront to the aural senses.
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The tricky thing is being able to listen to GOOD Jazz. Try Miles Davis "Kind of Blue". That is a GREAT jazz album... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue Moody, bluesy, sweet, sad, great background music for writing, eating and various other pursuits :D
ReplyDeleteno no nooooo! jazz can be so amazing! i agree that sometimes it just sounds as though everyone is trying to show everyone else that their instrument is the loudest, but some it soo good! and the musicians are always so increadibly talented!!! one of my favourite jazz songs(that i know the name of and i'm a bit of a beginner..) is take five by dave brubeck. very melodic indeed! it's lovely that your writing now for everyone to see all the time. it is capturing. keep it up please :) and btw i NEED to have a skype chat with you soon!!!
ReplyDeleteCliff Huxtable: Oh,oh-oh! You see, the kids these days, they listen to the rap music, which gives them the brain damage. With the hippin' and the hoppin' and the bippin' and the boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about. Y'see, jazz is like Jello pudding... no, that's not it. Jazz is like Kodak film... no, that's not right neither. I've got it, jazz is like the new Coke - it'll be around forever.
ReplyDeleteThe Simpsons have the answer to everything, if you'll only look, trafs. :)