It Ain't Trad, Dad...

I, too, often ask the question is it jazz? - from today's Guardian - but usually before saying 'could you please turn that off'?[}:)]

Paul
(who shares Otis Lee Crenshaw's view that 'Jazz is what you get when you push a blues quartet down a flight of stairs.)

(Edited to deal with 'eats, shoots and leaves' issue)

quote:Originally posted by pjh
I too often ask the question is it jazz? - from today's Guardian, - but usually before saying 'could you please turn that off'?[}:)]

Paul
(who shares Otis Lee Crenshaw's view that 'Jazz is what you get when you push a blues quartet down a flight of stairs.)



'Jazz, Nice!' [:D]

quote:Originally posted by pjh
I, too, often ask the question is it jazz? -

Yes, I agree. An interesting story nonetheless. But as technically good as I am sure Larry Ochs is, I just don't get this type of music, in much the same way that I don't get some modern art. Perhaps I am a Luddite in that respect.

I remember when the soprano sax player Julian Smith did well on Britain's Got Talent earlier this year, there were suggestions from some long-in-the-tooth saxophonists that while he might be appealling to the masses, he wasn't that special as a saxophonist. His penchant for uber reverb together with a tuning meter mounted on his instrument didn't exactly help his cause with these types. But he still sounded pretty darned good to me, although I like to think I that can play 'Somewhere' on the soprano sax nearly as well. Or, at least I can play the notes in the same order anyway [:p].

Cheers, Howard