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         | Mr. Bighead
             from Coolidge, AZ on 2001-02-22 21:10 [#00000240]
        
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 | Let's talk jazz... go on now
 say a little something...
 say a little something...
 say a little something...
 
 
 
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         | jeremy gustin
             from Boston on 2001-02-22 22:40 [#00000245]
        
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 | ....great jazz is great.... 
 
 
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         | diastole
             from doh! on 2001-02-22 23:06 [#00000248]
        
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 | is red snapper a type of jazz, and indeed the same question could be aked for omni trio! hmmmmmmmm jazzzzzz
 
 
 
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         | Id Lab
             from Brakehorse.com on 2001-02-22 23:42 [#00000257]
        
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 | They're jazzy, at least. Medeski, Martin and Wood are great jazz. Squarepusher is sometimes jazz.
 
 
 
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         | Mr. Bighead
             from Coolidge, AZ on 2001-02-22 23:49 [#00000258]
        
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 | How about Cecil Taylor? Charlie Parker?
 Ornette coleman?
 John Coltrane?
 Charles Mingus?
 or maybe the Art Ensemble of Chicago?
 
 
 
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         | Torley Wong
             from Vernon, BC, Canada / WWW.TORLEY.COM on 2001-02-23 01:29 [#00000259]
        
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 | good list, Mr. Bighead! 
 i'll say Photek for the sake of "jungle jazz" (as much as
 some people dislike that term) and his sometimes jazzy drum
 programming. (diastole: yup, Omni Trio have fallen under
 this label too time to time, and Red Snapper some people
 liken to a jazzy sort of trip-hop. but labels aside...)
 
 let's not forget a lot of music in veins like R&B and funk
 are descended from jazz roots.
 
 what about Erykah Badu, for example? and her roots in Billie
 Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
 
 or along more electronic lines... yes, Squarepusher
 definitely has jazz heritage, Id Lab! Luke Vibert sometimes
 kicks it up in a more funk-oriented direction (i.e. his
 collab with BJ Cole). i'm also thinking the likes of Adam
 Dorn aka Mocean Worker. our own Richard D. James too in a
 tangential way -- some of the snare rush syncopations he
 throws in, likejazzlike.
 
 lots of great artists... oh, and of course:
 
 http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=jazz
 
 read the bottom few sentences :-)
 
 
 
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         | wizards teeth
             from Inside my own kidneys on 2001-02-23 09:40 [#00000267]
        
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 | Why is music put into a class. 
 Why can all music not be classed as Jazz.
 
 Cool Daddyo
 
 
 
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         | Torley Wong
             from Vernon, BC, Canada / WWW.TORLEY.COM on 2001-02-23 10:10 [#00000268]
        
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 | wizards teeth, good point -- 
 i know what you mean and i've heard it many times before.
 simply put, i believe that each human sorts things in
 his/her own unique individual way for such purposes as
 organization and accessibility. there needs to be a balance
 of order and chaos like yin and yang.
 
 genres and labels and classes (as you put it) are just there
 to make things more convenient, they don't necessarily have
 to be limiting in the pigeonhole sense if you use them
 casually. certainly some people will feel a certain artist
 is more jazzy than another, but i'll leave that up to
 personal preference and a matter of subjective opinion.
 styles of music are just sort of general guidelines with the
 lines blurred.
 
 i guess that's a beauty of being an individual! :) cool eh?
 
 
 
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         | diastole
             from http://homstead.com/diastole1 on 2001-02-23 11:25 [#00000272]
        
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 | we need genre so we don't have to riffle through stuff don't we...we need to categorise stuff...but we do go over the
 top............don't be too much of a pendant and say that
 the category is MUSIC...but anyway, who cares...
 I have a great cd called jungle jazz, and i enjoy the brass
 when it kicks, those trumpets!!!ooooh!
 
 
 
 
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         | TuneFish
             from T.O. on 2001-02-23 15:47 [#00000278]
        
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 | Anybody heard "Shapeshifter Compilation: Jazzstep into Drum and Bass", yet? That is also a very good example...
 
 
 
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         | Mr. Bighead
             from Coolidge,AZ on 2001-02-23 20:10 [#00000298]
        
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 | Jazz is not a term that I would say is capable of pigeon holing an artist. terms like fusion and funk fusion are the
 only terms that have ever pigeon holed a jazz artist.
 
 I give a nod to all the artists who have roots in jazz. As
 for me all my roots are in straight up punk rock and avante
 garde compostion. jazz came along a bit late.
 
 We should also give a nod to all the artists who are still
 making meaningful jazz today. People like David S. Ware and
 Matthew Shipp. Everyone should do themself a favor and buy a
 copy of "Go See the World" by the David S. Ware Quartet.
 It's wonderful experimental jazz.
 Plus, he could use some more royalties.
 
 I have a feeling that a majority of the best techno carries
 the same spirit of free jazz or be bop. In it's search for
 new sounds and textures. Aphex can make his equipment
 explode in much the same way that Bird made his saxophone
 scream. Plus, "Music is Rotted One Note" is a damn good
 album. I wonder if Squarepusher ever got any recognition
 from any major jazz artists?
 
 
 
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         | hedtwin
             from Manchester, England. on 2001-02-23 21:13 [#00000309]
        
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 | i like jazz, it is very very cool. I would agree that squarepusher does alot of jazz tracks, and i enjoy them
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         | Torley Wong
             from Vernon, BC, Canada / WWW.TORLEY.COM on 2001-02-23 21:57 [#00000311]
        
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 | Mr. Bighead: that's a really good way of putting it. 
 again, it's so subjective. i suppose in the same way some
 people say "hip-hop is a lifestyle" nowadays, obviously one
 of its precursors was jazz and jazz could also be a
 lifestyle. heck, rave (or at least raving) is a lifestyle,
 so why not. then again, i think Miles Davis once said
 something to the effect of "fusion" not limiting him so it
 goes on + on + on :).
 
 ok, here's a FUN analogy to complete:
 
 Aphex Twin and Philip Glass
 Luke Vibert and BJ Cole
 Squarepusher and ?
 
 and anyone have opinions on... scat singing?
 
 
 
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         | Mr. Bighead
             from Coolidge,AZ on 2001-03-03 08:22 [#00000691]
        
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 | Let's make techno the new jazz. Let's have  a Bird and a Diz. A miles and a trane. A thelonius and a new sound for
 the music. Let's make it a movement. A real movement. if you
 know what I mean.
 
 
 
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         | Scary Bear
             on 2001-03-03 13:50 [#00000698]
        
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 | I don't know about anyone else here, and I've mentioned this before, Charles Mingus is amazing. I heard of him when
 looking at the influences for the latest Radiohead album and
 man it was something special when I first played it.
 
 And I'm suspecting that a lot of Warp artists do have
 influences from jazz and also classical. Has anyone here
 listened to the new Tortoise album, I bough it two days ago
 and it definitly has some interesting tunes on it.
 
 Still not as good as the twin tho. Oh and while I'm on the
 subject if you want to check out classical infuences then
 listen to Scriabin, for the bigger enthusiasts you might
 want to check out his Dark Symphony and the Mystique chord.
 
 
 
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         | hexane
             on 2001-03-03 14:48 [#00000702]
        
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 | i really dig some of the stuff Laurent Garnier is doing with that dang saxophonist. anyone heard it?
 
 i heard somewhere that Tom Jenkinson's dad was a jazz
 drummer. makes a lot of sense...
 
 
 
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         | hexane
             on 2001-03-03 14:49 [#00000703]
        
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 | i really dig some of the stuff Laurent Garnier is doing with that dang saxophonist. anyone heard it?
 
 i heard somewhere that Tom Jenkinson's dad was a jazz
 drummer. makes a lot of sense...
 
 
 
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         | xepha88
             from behind you on 2001-11-01 18:04 [#00047776]
        
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 | yes, I agree with you all, Jazz is spiffy~~ 
 it takes mad skillz all up in your grill to know how to
 improv'~~  to see the counterpoint at yo' finga' tips and
 then play with it.  it's just like abstract art, or some
 modern poetry: you have to know the rules in order to truly
 say something by breaking them.
 
 
 
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         | Ophecks
             on 2001-11-01 18:55 [#00047786]
        
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 | You must LOVE jazz, if you had it in you to dredge up this topic, eh? :)
 
 
 
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         | Vcheilie
             on 2001-11-01 20:37 [#00047809]
        
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 | shove some miles davis up your ass 
 
 
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         | fuck these musicians
             on 2001-11-01 20:53 [#00047815]
        
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 | Torley Wong is a robot. 
 
 
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         | The_Funkmaster
             from Canada on 2001-11-02 02:16 [#00047835]
        
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 | Hey, what about Dave Brubeck? :) Time Out is a gorgeous jazz album... Kind of Blue and Love
 Supreme are both awesome!!! Steely Dan is an awesome jazzy
 rock group... actually, Steely Dan is the name of a dildo
 from Naked Lunch...
 
 
 
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