frogman
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| Jazz for aficionados **** All I saying is Classical has thousand times more music than jazz ,**** This is true; as is all you wrote. Important to keep in mind that Classical music has been with us over one thousand years if one includes its earliest forms while Jazz ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados And, let’s not forget that improvisation is not unique to Jazz. Less so today than in Beethoven’s time (since he was mentioned) when it was more common, but Classical music has a long tradition of improvisation. Many Classical works (concertos) in... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Well, I could preface my response with “With all due respect…”, but I have to ask myself just how much respect someone who comes in like a bull in a China closet to preach in an insensitive and ill informed way deserves. But, I digress….so, I will... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I kept asking myself, “7000”? “7000? What the hell are these guys talking about?”Took me a while to realize. 7000 posts! Has it been that many? Has it really been more than twenty years that I’ve been here? How time flies! Anyway, thank you guys ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados phasing=phrasing | |
| Jazz for aficionados Thanks for your thoughts on the Perahia/Schubert. Schiff’s performance is truly remarkable. I posted the Perahia recording because I own it and know the sonatas fairly well and because I have always loved Perahia’s playing. You wrote that ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Fabulous Schubert/Schiff! Thank you. What do you think of this? : | |
| Jazz for aficionados That’s pretty funny. Btw, as hard as you may try, you sir are NOT part of the great unwashed 😊 | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** On here I assume everyone says what they feel like….. Of course. Completely agree with that, and as it should be. A great forum to express ideas and feelings about those ideas; even when there may be some qualification or disagreement. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I think you missed the point. You may be arguing a point that has nothing to do with what I wrote. I could dispute your notion of “the great unwashed decide….” , but it is not relevant to my point. It is not about who is great, but rather, is... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Some thoughts in the spirit of the thread. Where is our OP, btw? We all have favorites. They are favorites for a variety of reasons; mostly subjective and not objective The playing style of a favorite resonates with our own aesthetic sense and... | |
| The Good Stuff I suppose that it could be argued that a protest is not much of a protest if it is not in plain “view”. However, some, including some artists, choose to not mix their art with politics; not in an obvious way, anyway. “I merely took the energy tha... | |
| Jazz for aficionados We are, and have been, in complete agreement. I would only add that what we are discussing is at the heart of the often mentioned quote: “There are only two kinds of music…..good music and the other kind”. This from one of the greatest Jazz mus... | |
| Jazz for aficionados **** the most important element in music, which is musical time out of metronomical or measured time, **** That’s right. I would qualify that comment by streamlining the idea even further to simply “time”. Time is the most important element of mu... | |
| Jazz for aficionados On a different thread, mahgister wrote very eloquently about “time” in music; specifically, an orchestral conductor’s time conception. It could be said that the musical “particulars” that come into play (😉) in the expression of time in music are, ... |