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Double Bass Do you tire of jazz?

#41
Thanks for all the great responses guys! I didn't expect this thread to be so popular.
I just need to clarify a few things.
Firstly, I knew I shouldn't have said "guilty pleasures". I was really just at a loss for a better term. I really should have said "non jazz". Trust me I am in no way a musical snob. For example, recently I've been enjoying quite a bit of dubstep and drum and bass.
I definitely agree that it's hugely important to play a lot of music with your friends etc. That's not really the root of my problem though. I still jam with my friends in my course all the time, I've also recently started a trio with a drummer and trumpet player playing reggae, groove stuff.
The course I'm doing is pretty liberal with the definition of jazz. Although the course is somewhat structured towards the bop and post-bop era, no one there is stopping you from playing what you want. I'm not really interested in forcing myself into liking one particular style of music. If I'm not digging jazz then I'm not digging jazz I guess.
Thanks again for the responses, I wasn't really looking for a solution as much as I was just interested to hear what you guys had to say so feel free to continue the discussion!
 
#43
damonsmith said:
... if you need to listen to Mike Jackson to get through the day, go ahead and then get back to "work"!
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I dunno. Every time I saw Miles play this tune, it seemed like real work to me. I went to a lot of those shows alone because my friends thought he wasn't playing "jazz" anymore. While I prefer the recordings from a previous time, Miles' live shows in the 80s remain some of my fondest musical memories.

--Steve
 
#44
I occasionally get tired of 50s straight ahead jazz and hard bop for a while. I have a lot of records, so it's not hard to keep mixing things up and exploring other areas.

There's lots of jazz (and what other people call jazz...) I have no use for, but avoiding it is not a problem.

There are some recordings I like so much I have to limit how often I listen to them. But that's OK, the anticipation adds to the enjoyment when they come back around.
 
#45
That's a good point - there are so many styles of Jazz that it's hard to tire of them all!

So - there are things like Miles' "In a Silent Way" which are so different to any other Jazz and then you could listen to Weather Report, whose albums are all different in their own right - I often wonder what's going on in "Mysterious Traveller" for example and it repays study. Then there is European Jazz and again albums by Eberhard Weber have so much interesting material - it doesn't all have to be about Blue Note Jazz from the 60s or Bebop or Hard Bop etc.

Just pick a different era or area, from what you are currently studying.
 
#47
NUVO: How much has collaborating with artists outside jazz influenced your own music?

McBride: As I mentioned earlier, R&B and soul music is the backbone of my life, so for me to collaborate with musicians "outside" of jazz has never been a foreign idea to me or anyone of my generation. I believe most musicians of my generation have had so-called "outside" influences in their music.

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