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Mr. Bighead from Coolidge, AZ on 2001-02-22 21:10 [#00000240]



Let's talk jazz...
go on now
say a little something...
say a little something...
say a little something...


 

jeremy gustin from Boston on 2001-02-22 22:40 [#00000245]



....great jazz is great....


 

diastole from doh! on 2001-02-22 23:06 [#00000248]



is red snapper a type of jazz, and indeed the same question
could be aked for omni trio! hmmmmmmmm jazzzzzz


 

Id Lab from Brakehorse.com on 2001-02-22 23:42 [#00000257]



They're jazzy, at least. Medeski, Martin and Wood are great
jazz. Squarepusher is sometimes jazz.


 

Mr. Bighead from Coolidge, AZ on 2001-02-22 23:49 [#00000258]



How about Cecil Taylor?
Charlie Parker?
Ornette coleman?
John Coltrane?
Charles Mingus?
or maybe the Art Ensemble of Chicago?


 

Torley Wong from Vernon, BC, Canada / WWW.TORLEY.COM on 2001-02-23 01:29 [#00000259]



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 :-)


 

wizards teeth from Inside my own kidneys on 2001-02-23 09:40 [#00000267]



Why is music put into a class.

Why can all music not be classed as Jazz.

Cool Daddyo


 

Torley Wong from Vernon, BC, Canada / WWW.TORLEY.COM on 2001-02-23 10:10 [#00000268]



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?


 

diastole from http://homstead.com/diastole1 on 2001-02-23 11:25 [#00000272]



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!



 

TuneFish from T.O. on 2001-02-23 15:47 [#00000278]



Anybody heard "Shapeshifter Compilation: Jazzstep into Drum
and Bass", yet? That is also a very good example...


 

Mr. Bighead from Coolidge,AZ on 2001-02-23 20:10 [#00000298]



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?


 

hedtwin from Manchester, England. on 2001-02-23 21:13 [#00000309]



i like jazz, it is very very cool. I would agree that
squarepusher does alot of jazz tracks, and i enjoy them
greatly.


 

Torley Wong from Vernon, BC, Canada / WWW.TORLEY.COM on 2001-02-23 21:57 [#00000311]



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?


 

Mr. Bighead from Coolidge,AZ on 2001-03-03 08:22 [#00000691]



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.


 

Scary Bear on 2001-03-03 13:50 [#00000698]



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.


 

hexane on 2001-03-03 14:48 [#00000702]



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...


 

hexane on 2001-03-03 14:49 [#00000703]



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...


 

xepha88 from behind you on 2001-11-01 18:04 [#00047776]



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.


 

Ophecks on 2001-11-01 18:55 [#00047786]



You must LOVE jazz, if you had it in you to dredge up this
topic, eh? :)


 

Vcheilie on 2001-11-01 20:37 [#00047809]



shove some miles davis up your ass


 

fuck these musicians on 2001-11-01 20:53 [#00047815]



Torley Wong is a robot.


 

The_Funkmaster from Canada on 2001-11-02 02:16 [#00047835]



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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