I like it when jazz players play something other than jazz.
I think the Smashing Pumpkins’ Jimmy Chamberlin is one of the best drummers in popular music. He’s jazz-trained. I think you can hear that training in the precision of the timekeeping in “Cherub Rock,” for instance.
The one jazz tune that I do particularly enjoy is Guaraldi’s “Linus and Lucy.” Maybe not a connoisseur’s choice, but I don’t mind if people don’t think I’m a connoisseur. It’s just bouncy and fun.
I like a lot of brass and anyone who mutes a trumpet or a 'bone with anything but his hat should be publicly flogged and ex-communicated (whatever that might mean).
I like The Canadian Brass.
I like the gituars of Leo Kotke and John Williams.
I like Tin Pan Ally - Scott Joplin rules.
I like classical string quartet.
I like Evening at Pops and try not to miss it.
B.B. King can keep me listening for hours.
I don’t know nothing about no music, but I do know what I like. Anyone that doesn’t like it can go listen somewhere else.
Maybe it’s just because I’m a musician, but I have a respect for all types of music–Jazz included. If you don’t like it listen to something else. I personally find it facinating, and improvisation (common in Jazz) is an integral part of my guitar style.
You can discriminate types of music, that’s fine. I used to discrimate types of music when I was younger, I don’t anymore though.
An open mind is better than a closed mind.
So if someone doesn’t like every type of music out there, they’re closed-minded? It couldn’t simply be that they have the right to their own opinion without being accused of having a character flaw? Pretty merciless.
No. But I think making a statement like “Jazz is crap” is a little closed minded.
Yeah, that’s a pretty good point.
On the other hand, I hate it when non-jazz players try to play jazz.
You know what bugs me? It’s how the Simpson’s episodes with Bleeding Gums Murphy conflate blues and jazz. And then, play as a tribute to Murphy a song called `Jazz Man’ that isn’t Jazz at all.
Motherfresheners.