...thats not the kind of track you try and convince a bunch of jazznorants is glorious...you have to start small with jazz, and work your way in...
...try this...I bet you'll scoff at it...but I think people round these parts could dig this more...
...but everyone digs Bill Evans.
When I have negative thoughts about jazz..this is usually what I'm hearing. I appreciate the intensity and chops..but don't enjoy the tunes.
When I have negative thoughts about jazz..this is usually what I'm hearing. I appreciate the intensity and chops..but don't enjoy the tunes.
i'm sure Matt will disagree, but this seems to make sense to me:
jazz started out as pop music. as time went on and that music was taken over by newer forms (rock n roll), as that happened, the jam sessions became the sound and the music got more technical, appealing to a smaller subset of the population.
turning people on to jazz through albums like "The Shape of Jazz to Come" or maybe even a Medeski, Martin, & Wood album; is kinda like introducing people to rock music through "Surfing with the Alien" having never heard Chuck Berry. it's just too abstract.
It depends on who's being introduced to what, and we're they're coming from. I find The Yellow Shark, Jazz is Dead, Roxy & Elsewhere, etc., to be by far the most "accessible" of Zappa's records, for instance, and still can't take to his 60s material at all.
And I do know jazz fans who've jumped in with Ornette or Zorn or whoever, and worked their way back to Ellington; Pascal at GJ is a great example of that.
And I do know jazz fans who've jumped in with Ornette or Zorn or whoever, and worked their way back to Ellington; Pascal at GJ is a great example of that.
Pascal is also a great musician and very knowledgeable.
Roxy, maybe. but definitely not the other two. you get it because of your background. it took me a while to get to both of them.
how would you get somebody who's primary background is Clapton, Beck, and Page; and thinks Beck is a little too far off the deep end, into jazz? for me, i'm bringing them back through the blues guys and to Charlie Christian, and then forward through Wes Montgomery "Smokin' at the Half Note". if you can get there, then you can get to Miles and then Ornette. if not, they become a blooz lawyer.
some stuff appeals to some some folks, some stuff doesn't.
most folks are idiots and wouldn't know decent music if it hit them upside the head.
* prepares for Flamencolofury *
kinda unrelated, but that brought to mind a scene from that movie Amadeus, where one fella accuses Mozart of writing music with "too many notes".
kinda unrelated, but that brought to mind a scene from that movie Amadeus, where one fella accuses Mozart of writing music with "too many notes".