>If you're all so clever - why doesn't one of you explain why,
'Green >Onions' for example, is 'soul' and not hammond/dancefloor jazz.
Green Onions Has a very sustained four four beat. It's partly to do with the
instrumentalists themselves. Jazz players are usually fancier players and
more spontaneous with their playing. Despite a large majority of soul bands
having jazz members in their groups (they can play anything can jazz
players) they tend to sit and write and tend to be more preoccupied with the
finished product as a whole.
But can't you tell the difference between Jimmy Smith (JAZZ) and Booker
T or Jr Walker (SOUL)? Different beats. What's so different about them? I
can only suggest that jazz is more sporadic..Soul has a different feel. You
can spot a vocalless soul backing track a mile off. The productions are so
much bigger and usually have little nuances like big string breaks. Sometime
though, I'll agree, not very different instruments are used, but once you
have listened to a fair pile of jazz and soul instrumentals, you kind of get
the difference. As Mr Gordy said, it's what's in the groove that counts.
Matt....
p.s. Listen to Davis' Kind Of Blue. That'll make you appreciate the
differences between the two.
