On Mar 10, 2005, at 3:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone wrote:
"That's an easy one -- Rhapsody in Blue isn't jazz."
I recently heard a discussion on this very subject - whether R in B was jazz
or not. Several wildly different recordings were called upon as witnesses.
The conclusion was that when it was played by Jack Splatt's Jazz Band it was
jazz and when it was played by Joe Soap's Symphony Orchestra it wasn't.
All the best,
Lawrence
Very close, but more to the point – jazz isn't what you play or who plays it, it's HOW you play it. Every note that came out of Miles Davis' trumpet wasn't necessarily jazz (despite what everyone tries to tell us), but a whole bunch of them were, depending on how he approached it.
I think Marcus Robert's version of Rhapsody was jazz, or mostly so.
Christopher
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