Looks like I'm the only one here who likes Jazz --- but doesn't care so much for improvisation.
I.e. -- I think the effects that grab me have been worked out way ahead-of-time ---- first by the song writer -- and then by the arranger -- and finally by the musicians who practice together until they feel they got it right. (though, sometimes, the same person, like Thelonious Monk, excels at all three) What I really like -- might be called a representational musical image -- where I get to share some extraordinary moment of a human soul -- and I have no interest in whatever musical structures were used to get me to that moment. (that's the musician's job -- not mine) So -- after listening to Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" -- I would never refer to that as an "impoverished form of music" -- especially on noting that it gives me a kind of ecstatic, joyful feeling that I've never gotten from any other song. To modify Brian's statement -- I would say that Jazz's artistic potential is invested in the realm of musical imagery -- and it's a community of performers, arrangers, and songwriters.(and let's not forget the producers) Just like European Classical music. _____________________________________________________________ Take the perfect vacation to Myrtle Beach. Click Here. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijmfjv8SvYLP1UzpRNl2G08FQ hLnBcnW9dzxt612N8iLX0GeY/
