They say jazz is "the silent spaces between the notes." Well, Trump's politics is, too
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There's a scene in one of my favorite movies of all time, The Talented Mr. Ripley, where Dickey's father says about Jazz: "To me Jazz is just noise. Insolent noise".
Although this movie is dripping with Jazz references, I agree with Herbert Greenleaf... to my ears, it is mostly just random noises.
It's the soundtrack for chaos undivided.
Controlled chaos. Chaos as though the world greatest artists were creating it. I never understood how people don't like jazz. Especially 50's be-bop and big band.
Thelonious Monk, Mingus, Ellington.
I know Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington from the long version of the Sopranos theme song. What about Ella Fitzgerald? Seriously though, it would not surprise me if these guys were good. Whenever I hear any generic jazz though it hurts my ears.
Most modern jazz, or what they call jazz these days is garbage. To me jazz really died back in the 60's. There are still people playing those styles but nothing that is promoted in any way. Kenny G is NOT jazz...
Have you read what Pat Metheny said about Kenny G? Hilarious and very over the target.
This would not surprise me in the slightest. This is a theme also with art, contemporary music, cinema and more recently, PC gaming.
That is the abomination that was 60's free jazz, just awful.
Try Esbjorn Svensson, Jan Garbarek, Mammal Hands, Matthew Hassall and Pat Metheny.
I hated jazz so much. Literally with a passion. Then I lived in NYC. I met and made friends with this one guy who was so obsessed with jazz, he never married. His small Times Square apartment was NOTHING but jazz records (he'd say, "my collection is likely worth millions, but, I guess my estate will have to figure that out."). His only piece of furniture was a massaging recliner he named "Cynthia." He would take me up to the basement jazz bars in Harlem and we'd listen to the kids in the Juilliard jazz program "unwind" and just play.
Then one night it hit me. It was so subtle, no earthquake or anything, but, in this really weird instant, I sort of "got it." I liked jazz.
Jazz is moron music ~ Henry Ford
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