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Win - win.Call me Phyllis Stein but it’s Bebop with no changes?
Win - win.Call me Phyllis Stein but it’s Bebop with no changes?
Well, you could say the same about Elvis Presley, or Hank Williams, or James Brown. Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were working in the field of European composed art music. Rappers, Elvis, Hank, Mr. Brown worked in the field of African-American improvised music and European folk music. They are the logical descendants of the jongleurs and griots and traveling bards of past times. Let's not let things get too confused here. I guarantee you that while Bach was working out a nine-part fugue for organ and choir, a few miles down the road was a couple of guys playing a bagpipe and drum for farm workers to dance to at the end of their work day; sailors were heaving on a windlass offshore using chanteys to keep time; and in Sub-Saharan Africa local corps of drummers were supplying the soundtrack for dancing both ceremonial and festive....they didn’t believe that the culmination of music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven etc etc etc was Rap...
Have. As I’ve said before, my tastes are pretty broad and go as “far” as Takemitsu. It still ticks the boxes that I want to be ticked. The stuff mentioned previously doesn’t.I find it interesting how people tend to stop acquiring new tastes at a certain point, and they just don't want to hear anything new. Not everyone, but a lot of people.
I know a number of trad players who just can't even stand the first whiff of Charlie Parker. Beboppers who can't stand fusion, and beboppers who can't stand New Orleans style. Rock players who insist that all jazz is "that weird incomprehensible stuff" even if you set them down and play a bunch of Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong for them. Classical guys who swear that any jazz player who bends a note is "playing out of tune". And as far as avant-garde stuff, especially the more freeish stuff? It's like everyone loves to hate that stuff.
Man, maybe you SHOULD try the raw oyster or the sashimi or the hot peppers.
For me that age was about 3. It may have been earlier but I can’t remember back that far.I think you get to an age where you don't want to work at things any more. Time for an easy life.
It's hard for me to imagine that melody leaving you cold. But of course, to each his own.Thanks for trying. I like his alto sound a lot, but the tunes just leave me cold.
As for the Perfect Pitch snobbery - Perfect as what - tempered tuning?!
I like Baroque, some Classical, Late Romantic, Nationalism, Impressionism, 20C to maybe 1945, Gorecki, Ogerman, Takemitsu, much of jazz history, pop jazz, Easy Listening, Steely Dan/Fagen (a lot)…What compositions are you into?
Nah, mostly down the list. Apart from Holst.Does that mean patriotic British music in your case?
It’s very well played. It sounds like an extended intro though, and a cross between David Bedford and Heinrich Gruber.Here's a wonderful group by a great composer with a very rich harmonic sense.
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Morris dancing.Ha, what's the genre "nationalism"? I didn't know that was a genre. Does that mean patriotic British music in your case?
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