Re: Electricity In Jazz

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 12:12:09 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote,rec.music.makers.bass,rec.music.makers.percussion
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So YOU'RE the god of jazz-fire?
What sounds good to your ear may sound like crap to another. Since we're
splitting hairs over "what comprises jazz" and it's inherit instrumentation
why cannot the creativity of plucking a cactus be deemed as "jazz"? What
about prepared piano? Inuit throat-singing? Everything has a validity to
someone, somewhere. Just because you (third person) feel jazz is being
compromised because of amplification or instrumentation....well...that's
your opinion.
The last time I checked, the broad-stroke definition of jazz is all about
"freedom of expression."
Since you staunch traditionalists feel that jazz should be performed on
acoustic instruments, what parameters shall we impose? Only trios? Quartets?
Tell you what- let's just say there's an all-acoustic jazz group coming to
town consisting of banjo, french horn, toy piano (yes, a kid's plaything)
and theremin?
Would you consider that jazz?
Bottom line is that it has nada to do with the instrumentation. It's what
the feeling is that createsthe music. And it's a shame that your beloved
jazz is being evolved and shaped into a new form of expression. It's a
barometer of the times, in a sense.
Now shaddup and play.
BR
"Dez Dankworth" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> "Bill Ray" <email-address-deleted_BLAH> wrote in message
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> >
> > John Cage used to make music on an amplified cactus. Is that not improv
> > enough?
>
> Look, if we are going to discuss music, then it behooves us to first
> move beyond the notion that any conjoining of sounds constitutes music.
> That, by the way, is where makers of "avant-garde jazz" and "free jazz",
> as
> well as their fans, come to grief.
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