Playing the saxophone How do you justify jazz?

[Zasterz]

First time I saw David Bowie he was a mime artist not a musician.

You saw his mime act live?? 😲

 

[Grumps]

The whole point about using silence in music as a powerful tool has been utilised for hundreds of years.

If only I could have gotten that through to my last group...

 

[Targa]

You saw his mime act live?? 😲

Yes on the bill with Tyrannosaurus Rex, Ravi Shankar and John Peel. Can’t remember the year exactly, around ‘69.

 

[MikeMorrell]

[ADMIN EDIT: I originally posted this in answer to the thread Great Players - Recommendation beginners' listening, famous, infamous and also more obscure. but maybe it can work as a new topic?]


This makes total sense.

But I also think if drawing them in is something you want to do, it's probably a good idea to be able to articulate what it is about jazz that is worth the actual effort of bringing someone into the jazz realm. Or maybe more to the point their effort involved in being brought into the realm. Or is it a case of "training wheels?"

Granted it may be an impossible or even ridiculous question but maybe it will be interesting to get some different perspectives. Any kind of minority genre has a relatively small audience so I doubt many people get into for the money.

So how do you:

• explain
• introduce
• justify
• persuade
• excuse
• entice people into the jazz realm?

EDIT: To make the discussion more focussed note the following from a post below

As far as I've able to find out (I may well be wrong!), I've not commented on this thread yet. Anyway, at the risk of repetition of a previous response from me (and/or) replication of previous responses (which I've not read) my 2 cts are:

• I truly don't believe that you can deliberately 'entice' a musician into the' jazz realm'; IMHO all musicians have 'personal preferences' w.r.t. 'musical genres' that often change and evolve as they develop as musicians and are exposed to new musical genres.
• Some 'exposure' to jazz (in addition to other musical genres) is certainly useful.
• I firmly believe that musicians (including sax players) should - gradually - learn to play music in the 'musical genres' that (locally) most support, inspire and challenge them. And gradually (and naturally) expand their musical interests into other 'interesting' genres.

My personal preferences for 'musical genres' has changed over the years. And I assume other musician's interest will too

Mike
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[Zasterz]

Yes on the bill with Tyrannosaurus Rex, Ravi Shankar and John Peel. Can’t remember the year exactly, around ‘69.

WOW! 🤯