You got to show me something more!


Okay, one thread has a group of folks dissin' the Ken Burns Jazz series on PBS. Another thread under Rock Systems has a writer that suggests Jazz merely "jerks around."

To each his/her own, but do you folks even have a clue what constitutes good music?

Rather than spending thousands of dollars on audio gear, perhaps many of you would do yourself a greater service by enrolling in a course in music appreciation. Doing so might actually enhance your appreciatiation of Jazz, and what is probably the most technically challenging, and soul revealing music ever created! Enjoy!
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Cotrane: You assume too much about the education or lack of it in regard to the members at this site. The next time you post you might try sharing something other than your ignorance. I enjoy jazz, but not ignorance.
Dekay: I do not assume, nor have I commented on anyone's level of education. People can listen to whomever and whatever they choose. However, if someone suggests that jazz is nothing more than jerky music, then perhaps, just perhaps that warrants a bit more explanation. Last I heard, this was a forum for discussion, is it not?

And Dekay, it is spelled COLTRANE. Don't be ignorant...JUST KIDDING!
The best jazz musicians I ever met all had classical training and there is no question that classical music IS the most technically challenging. Show me any jazz musician who can compose or play counterpoint like Bach. Jazz musicians are imitators, of each other and of the classical genre. Seems like you have yet to complete your course on music appreciation.
Coltrane: Actually, yes you did clearly make that inference. However, since you are attempting to weedle out of it I have no "bone" to pick regarding your initial flame post. Your "weedle" is accepted. I once made a post with a somewhat nasty tone to it, yup. LOL. I like to listen to most kinds of music, as long as it has merit, and even listen to some that I don't like as much when my 14 year old godson hangs with me. My wife though, cannot stand to listen to "most" jazz as she finds it irritating. I am in the spare bedroom at this moment listening to the "Jazz Mandolin Project", that I just purchased today for a dollar at the flea, on a cheap mini system. My wife has a fairly vast knowledge of both popular and world music and jazz is just not her cup of tea as Gregorian chanting is not mine. The mandolin CD upon finish is interesting. Oh, and Coltrane was a typo, I just call people names instead clever things like that. David
hey dragon, save a glass for me. BTW, i'd give you a + vote for your last post. i'm with you: screw em' if they can't take a joke! dekay, my only known fellow-iowan on this sorry site: i'd give you 2+. oops, guess i can't do that. coltrane: i'm with dekay; chill out, 'cuz you're commin' on pretty strong for a newbie (or a lurker). but then audiogon apparently loves lurkers ("the silent majority"). hey, anybody else think maybe dubya's people have seized control of audioigon?