stuartk
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| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @marlkings:OK-- sorry for misunderstanding you. When you said you 1) didn't like improv and 2) that you "like order and structure and purpose and overall sense of a composition", I thought you were saying that you don't enjoy improv BECAUSE IT LAC... | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? RE: not mutually exclusive, it seems to me that, with all due respect to those whom have much more knowledge and experience than I possess, terms such as musicality and resolution are frequently bandied about here as though we all define such term... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @wolfgarcia:Took my 65-year-old brain a while to recall the name...The group was The Cookers.You've been warned! :o) | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @wolf_garcia:The last Jazz show I attended was an all-star group that included, among others, Billy Harper and Eddie Henderson-- two giants. Altogether, there were four or five horns and reeds, piano, bass and drums. Everything was mic'd. This was... | |
| Sonnet Morpheus MK II DAC Decided not to go in this direction, so it's just as well no-one responded. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @yuviarora:There is no way for me to verify whether what you assert is true or not.It could be labelled a conspiracy theory but again, I have no way to authoritatively disprove it.I find there are plenty of challenges in life that are undeniably r... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @facten:"Classic Jazz" is a term most often used to describe Dixieland, so now I'm really confused.I'll just say that I've never heard anything by J. M. that has any elements that remotely approach Smooth Jazz. His music is far too harmonically an... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @yuviarora:: "What if both are completely wrong?"Can you offer an example of what "both being wrong" might look like?I find it easier to see how each side could be both partially right and partially wrong than to envision both sides being complete... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @middlemass: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987""We are there."Yup. Well, half the population believes in facts while the other half be... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @facten:We seem to not be communicating very well-- I apologize for whatever responsibility I bear for this.As it happens, I'm very familiar with John McLaughlin-- I've been listening to him since 1972. However, I have never heard anything by him ... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @facten;Actually, no.I'd appreciate some examples, if you don't mind. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @marklings:I'd go further and assert that what I've said about the nature of Jazz improv holds true for improv in any genre. Aimless noodling doesn't tend to be very satisfying for players or listeners. For example, the "theme and variation" appro... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @marklings: I studied jazz piano 3 years and came to the conclusion that I just don't like it. I like order and structure and purpose and overall sense of a composition. I don't judge those who dig jazz and I understand those who dig it, I just ... | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? Good one, then!I wasn't sure, given some of the other posts on this thread. | |
| Is improvisational jazz to impressionism art as smooth jazz is to realism art? @serjio:"In the Soviet Union, there was a joke-saying:today you play jazz - and tomorrow you will sell your homeland (everything sounds in rhyme).Surprisingly, years passed and it was these people who turned out to be traitors ...Behind abstractio... |