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Originally Posted by CrazyVegn (Post 1313280)

:confused:

:confused: :confused:

Well this is a very subjective outlook on life, lol.

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Originally Posted by Pietro Valente (Post 1318594)

Jazz needs: musicians to get closer to audience and people to focus on the music to be able to understand it.

I think it's Gerald Albright, a smooth jazz sax player who claims he's accessible to his audience. I think he's the one who gives sax lessons via Internet too, or at least that's what Music Choice says.

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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck (Post 1229448)

yeah, jazz is definitely darker and more evil

Try happy Smooth Jazz. For example, Vito's Vittles by the band Comfort Zone. Also some Latin Jazz is very good and not evil at all.

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Originally Posted by elijah.s7 (Post 1227475)

jazz is mostly for musicians because its really not about pleasure or even about about music as like classical music is about music, its about you, its about extending your limits of playing, expressing your nature through playing in a solo, sometimes it is even egoistic and a sort of competition between players who will out play who..in just a few chords of a particular piece that is bebop.

Your description of bebop is so truncated and general that it is pretty much useless. It's more applicable to rock than to bop jazz.

Bop isn't about being egoistic, it's about losing ego by playing what is in your heart at that moment. It is existential music, so of-the-moment that it melts away as it being played--like snowflakes landing on your hand.

There's no reason a listener can't get pleasure from as much as a musician just as with any other style of music.

Basically, if you can only listen to appreciate because you can't enjoy--stop listening.

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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1227538)

No. I do in fact enjoy jazz.

A lot.

The problem with Jazz is the word Jazz. It's crap.

I have a shirt with "Jazz we Can" on it, and it's epic.

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Originally Posted by Goofle11 (Post 1332409)

The problem with Jazz is the word Jazz. It's crap.

Wrong bodily excretion, I'm afraid.

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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip (Post 1332504)

Wrong bodily excretion, I'm afraid.

Agreed.^

What do you think of Steely Dan Lord Larehip? And their classification and style of Jazz Fusion.

Of course, they crossover and add different elements of style and genres in their music, especially according what particular album by them is being analyzed and discussed.