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04-04-2011, 10:03 PM
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04-05-2011, 01:42 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | I hope the future of jazz doesn't include jazz choirs.
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04-05-2011, 10:10 PM
| | | | jazz is dead.
Its beautiful music and i love studying it but maaaaaan is it dead. Its had its time though
Sadly a great number of others are going to be seen dieing, the way this world consumes and expects everything right away there is not much room for stuff like this anymore and its a very small breed of people who will keep it living.
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04-05-2011, 10:38 PM
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Maker of HPF-Pre upright bass preamp | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Madison WI | | | Jazz ceased to be the primary medium of popular music, decades ago. An art form doesn't need a huge audience in order to be kept alive. Is contemporary pop music really more alive than jazz? |
04-05-2011, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman I hope the future of jazz doesn't include jazz choirs. | If you're talking about the Swingle Singers I'm with you.
If you're talking about Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra you need a Q-Tip. |
04-05-2011, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by fdeck Jazz ceased to be the primary medium of popular music, decades ago. An art form doesn't need a huge audience in order to be kept alive. Is contemporary pop music really more alive than jazz? | Gregorian chant is still alive by those terms. I guess your right, i just meant it is getting increasingly hard to get noticed in genres like jazz.
Wait in 30 years rock will be gone as well.
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04-05-2011, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: SoCal | | Fifteen years ago Squarepusher did something completely new with jazz when he blended it deftly with electronica. YouTube - Squarepusher - E8 Boogie
Jaga Jazzist polished it up even more in the last decade, with a big band range. YouTube - Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (Live)
This sounded cool, but far less "future" than I was thinking. Sounds old actually, to me at least..
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04-05-2011, 11:13 PM
| | Fueled by chocolate | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | I went to see my friend's big band play at a restaurant (weird venue for a big band, but the acoustics were surprisingly good) last week and I suddenly felt nostalgic for a time when I wasn't even alive. Wow - such powerful music and such class. It was great! Unfortunately, the crowd was a bit thin and, with twenty-odd people in the band I don't think anyone walked away with much in the cash department. |
04-05-2011, 11:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | Jazz is most certainly not dead. New, exciting and interesting work is being produced all the time. You might have to look for it, but not too hard.
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04-05-2011, 11:36 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jeff arddun If you're talking about the Swingle Singers I'm with you.
If you're talking about Bobby McFerrin's Voicestra you need a Q-Tip. | Did you listen to the jazz choir in the link? Sound like Voicestra to you? 
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04-05-2011, 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman Did you listen to the jazz choir in the link? Sound like Voicestra to you? | Is Voicestra NOT a jazz choir? Or did you mean all jazz choirs except the good ones?  |
04-05-2011, 11:42 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jeff arddun Is Voicestra NOT a jazz choir? Or did you mean all jazz choirs except the good ones? | nah, I don't like jazz choirs. I'll lump large ensemble jazz in there too. I've played, and heard, far too many big bands to ever want to hear one again.
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04-05-2011, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Pacman nah, I don't like jazz choirs. I'll lump large ensemble jazz in there too. I've played, and heard, far too many big bands to ever want to hear one again. | LOL! Fair enough. |
04-05-2011, 11:44 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | | I say that with all love. I love *playing* big band. I just hate it when one is aimed at me.....
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04-05-2011, 11:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | Jazz never died....just hiding in obscurity. There are pockets of people in probably all metropolitan areas who love jazz----and of course there are jazz clubs that actually pack people in...but these are few and far between.
IMO Jazz has the most diversity of any genres of music.....one of the reasons I love it so much. Also, the crowds and players tend to be more mature and less prone to the rock star / rock fan BS that goes along with chunks of Rock music. As I got closer to 40 I started playing in more Jazz-oriented bands, and despite the smaller crowds, I enjoy it more. |
04-05-2011, 11:52 PM
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Partner: Otentic Guitars | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Gorinchem,The Netherlands | | | Looking around I notice music being played that's both improvised and groovy. Maybe we fail to recognize/adopt it as jazz, or the guys playing it call it differently, but it may be jazz nonetheless.
The influence of jazz is widespread, but has thinned out in the same go, merging into many other styles. So in a way it is more alive than ever, on the condition that our concept of jazz be not too narrowminded. |
04-05-2011, 11:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC | | | I really enjoyed the second track. Wow, High School band? They sound great! |
04-06-2011, 04:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Chris K Looking around I notice music being played that's both improvised and groovy. Maybe we fail to recognize/adopt it as jazz, or the guys playing it call it differently, but it may be jazz nonetheless.
The influence of jazz is widespread, but has thinned out in the same go, merging into many other styles. So in a way it is more alive than ever, on the condition that our concept of jazz be not too narrowminded. | +a gajillion | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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