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Would this new from of Hot Jazz be included in the "Americana" category or something different?
There seems to be a group of modern young 'uns who are digging deep into the 20th century and bringing new life to some of the great music from the earlier years .... especially folk and jazz from the 1920s
Hard to find anything wrong with that ...
I hope it catches on and brings on some new and exciting stuff for the future
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03-07-2017 05:44 PM
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An interview with the Master of MalapropismsInterviewer: Can you explain Jazz?
Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all Jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's wrong.
Interviewer: I don't understand.
Yogi: Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't know anything about it.
Interviewer: Are there any great Jazz players alive today?
Yogi: No. All the great Jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.
Interviewer: What's the difference between theory and practice?
Yogi: In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Interviewer: What is syncopation?
Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In Jazz, you don't hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be Jazz, but only if they're the same as something different from those other kinds.
Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand Jazz that well.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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The most popular form of Jazz today is World music kind of thing, Ethno.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Chicago's jazz fest is all jazz too, though Detroit gets even bigger names.
The NOLA fest gets bashed a lot by jazz folks because all the big names are usually rock bands, but there's still TONS of jazz at it, real N'awlins jazz stuff. They just get the big dumb rock acts to get people in.
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lol, with one guy doing bass, guitar, and vocals.
Badass.
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Originally Posted by Stevebol
LOL
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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Whatever happened to the 'swing' fad (featuring people like Brian Setzer) of a few years back?
Is that still going strong?
Old people, we get disconnected...
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
An even older style of music though--gypsy jazz--is thriving in a lot of cities. And despite the fact that it comes with a uniform as well, the music is actually good.
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
Brian himself is still going strong ... I saw his Christmas show in Tucson in 2015 and it was great
But the swing fad faded before the 90s were up IIRC
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
For myself, Brian is THE guitar player who sucked me into jazz. Before that, I did have a theory and basic training in jazz in college, but always loved rock'n'roll energy. The problem though, if you are in a typical rock band, you don't get to play all those jazzy chords and licks. So Brian was the first who opened my eyes that you can mixed both of those worlds.
I transcribed a lot of his stuff, and still use his ideas. It works great on hot jazz standards. I always go for the energy factor, even if I have to play simpler harmonically.
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