DrumEatDrum
Platinum Member
To many in the history of this music and its innovators it is and was EXACTLY that way Jay. To Coltrane it became his own spiritual musical jazz quest through expression in music. You can hear it in every note of the emotional depth of his music and playing.
When I heard Elvin live he WAS LIVING JAZZ HISTORY no doubt about it and no faking his way onto the bandstand or the recording studio on the subject. When I heard Jack with Keith he played a solo that covered the whole history of the instrument from Baby Dodds to present..pretty deep jazz ocean.... no questionable intent or substance..again a pretty heavy and serious living history of the music from its early roots to more modern concepts seen and heard today in the music called jazz.
ALL the greats i've had the fortune to meet and chat with DO consider the music a sacred thing to respect and hopefully offer their own contribution to after they are gone...that's the truth.
As I was sayin.....
In the 80's, I, as did many others, considered Poison, Warrant, and Trixter to be nothing but watered down cheese made for the lowest common denominator, offering no substance. But no one thought it should be not called rock and roll just because it was so poorly done.
There is watered down cheese in every genre of music, and some of it might stretch the definition of the founders intentions, but it is what it is.