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You loathe jazz?
Color me surprised
You have such broad musical taste I never would have expected that.
Does that include jazz vocalists as well ?
Yeah man, I just can't stomach it. I actually have a pretty narrow range of likes, but they are weird ones, so people think I am cultured.
I think the closest thing to Jazz that I like is Morphine.
I *tried* to like it in school, but all the artfags and jackasses who were reading bukowski , proust, rand, etc were all into it in college, they would get stoned and play this free jazz junque all night and read horrible stories and poems that they had written. a real pathetic existance. that drove me further away from what I saw as "intellectual" or "hip" music towards simple stuff like punk, gang of four, left banke, and back to my country roots(which were never far from my mind)
"Luxuriously packaged in a custom built, limited-edition Martin trumpet case."
Very cute idea.
Does it turn its back to you when the music starts to play?
That's not bad, but I got one to add:
"On sale" for 2,500 bucks and all you get are 2 LP's and 3 CD's - of the same album.
Elk - the Miles set requires you to face away from your speakers during the live cuts.
I would be interested but I have just about all the Miles I want. I've been buying his recordings since 1968. There are only half a dozen or so I want that I don't already have.
I actually play my recordings. So, all the extra trappings are wasted on me.
Teddy Ray;
Give Jazz a chance. (thanks John Lennon) Although I'm a jazz lover most "free jazz" is too free for me. Getting stoned and listening to it (in college) just made me want to hear things like KOB (Kind Of Blue) or Saxophone Colossus (Sonny Rollins).
I actually love Miles Davis and jazz in general, but even if I had the money and didn't already have a couple dozen of his albums already, this set just seems like some kind of twisted marketing fetish. I mean, a replica of the horn case, but made for CDs, and it also has his image inside and then a replica of his mouthpiece?! Plus, his painting "art" was really just ego doodling IMO but they got this limited lithograph thing thrown in. It all seems so sincerely done up, but it gives me a slimy feeling it all got concocted by a meeting between some ad guys and quickly blessed in some board room.
If Miles were around I feel certain he'd say something like: "Huh? You wanna make a prettied up copy of my fuckin' horn case, with a bunch of CDs in there and a fake mouth-piece? Man, who the fuck would want THAT?! Some uptight rich white guys probably... OK, but don't anybody say it was MY idea."
Loathe Jazz? It is the only American art form...
Wait.
Where did blues and rock & roll come from?
How about country music or bluegrass?
I better go do some learning today.
Blues - African spirituals?
Country music - Ireland?
Lately we've been bringing modern mass denial of science to an art form; does that count?
Anyway...I think Jazz is a uniquely American musical invention (that has spread beyond our shores of course) but agree Blues and Rock n Roll are all part of a triad of great American musical innovation. After those three all the off-shoots are more like branches, or mutations as the case may be. Country is really just a derivation of American folk plus Rock influence.
Nah. Renaissance music included syncopation, improvisation over harmonic structure, dissonance.
Nothing new about jazz.
that and Hollywood -- particularly our penchant for amazing sports films.
Didn't have much of a Beat though. If it ain't got that Swing....
Liking ones own country is so passe....
Allahu Akbar!