The JAZZ Thread

[Theabbot]

I prefer jazz over classical but my question is, How do you listen to it? I can't find where it's going or what the theme of the songs are.

On a basic level, you can enjoy the feel of the music. Let the rhythm and sounds move you. But there is also an intellectual level to it. One that is based on music theory. What might sound like random sounds/melody to you, is actually a complex expression of the exploration of music. Take for instance Giant Steps by Coltrane. Listening to this track you can't help but move to the walking baseline and enjoy the beautiful sounds of the lead sax. But Giant Steps is literally just that. Trane is taking Giant steps between the chord progressions and melodic structure. Like a poet uses vocabulary to paint a verbal mosaic, the jazz musician does the same with music.

 

[Yoda]

On a basic level, you can enjoy the feel of the music. Let the rhythm and sounds move you. But there is also an intellectual level to it. One that is based on music theory. What might sound like random sounds/melody to you, is actually a complex expression of the exploration of music. Take for instance Giant Steps by Coltrane. Listening to this track you can't help but move to the walking baseline and enjoy the beautiful sounds of the lead sax. But Giant Steps is literally just that. Trane is taking Giant steps between the chord progressions and melodic structure. Like a poet uses vocabulary to paint a verbal mosaic, the jazz musician does the same with music.

exactimundo
Its basically like listening to good freestyling over beautiful beats. like slum village or some shyt.

 

[Brady-Carter]

What yall know bout this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdAM8dSYSYo

Gold..

 

[Theabbot]

exactimundo
Its basically like listening to good freestyling over beautiful beats. like slum village or some shyt.

Mos def!
I wish more people saw the similarities. You can go into a jazz club and see cats reacting the exact same way as people at a hip-hop show reacts to an MC moving the crowd.

 

[Brady-Carter]

On a basic level, you can enjoy the feel of the music. Let the rhythm and sounds move you. But there is also an intellectual level to it. One that is based on music theory. What might sound like random sounds/melody to you, is actually a complex expression of the exploration of music. Take for instance Giant Steps by Coltrane. Listening to this track you can't help but move to the walking baseline and enjoy the beautiful sounds of the lead sax. But Giant Steps is literally just that. Trane is taking Giant steps between the chord progressions and melodic structure. Like a poet uses vocabulary to paint a verbal mosaic, the jazz musician does the same with music.

Wow, excellent explanation..

 

[Morethan1]

Yall need to check out my brother Greg Ward II alto sax player. He's a monster

 

[Brady-Carter]

exactimundo
Its basically like listening to good freestyling over beautiful beats. like slum village or some shyt.

Yes. it is the beat freestyling tho. If you have ever gone to a Jazz club the way they hit with the beat is like rappers hitting with a punch line.

it is why alot poets say there poems over jazz.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Recently- The Robert Glasper Experiment album....Lalah Hathaway's rendition of Sade's "Cherish the Day" is just golden. Then what makes it better is they recorded going thru a sound check an not on a take

All Time- Kind of Blue....greatest album ever regardless of genre

Personal Fave- all of the Blue Note Break beat albums...so many gems

 

[Da Jungles]

I need some shyt to sample....hook me up brehs

 

[Greenhornet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqZHzpAYVIk

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I drop mad acid and stay on the jazz tip

there is always time for it

 

[Danie84]

I need to build my jazz collection.

I only have these

 

[JoelB]

I need to build my jazz collection.

I only have these

That Jazz Liberatorz album is damn near classic... Im bout to throw it back on the ipod right now.

 

[Yoda]

fukking love Jazz Liberatorz. Real good music there.

 

[Danie84]

Are there jazz albums with that noir sound you hear in those old black and white movies. This is the only one I've found

 

[JulesWinfield]

Someone put me onto some more jazz artists. Only ones I know and listen to are Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie