foursticks
Pioneer Member
Yes, there are just as many black jazz musicians as white. Besides what's race got to do with it? It's MUSIC - its sound, it doesn't matter who the person producing the sound is, at the end of the day it's simply music.
Who created the rule that jazz music was for certain types of people? Jazz music, heck music, is for everyone to enjoy big or small; fat or thin; black or white, etc.
Jazz music is appreciated by others - not just musicians and its very much alive. Just because it isn't mainstream and played constantly on every radio station or on MTV does NOT mean its dead.
Also, where did this idea of sophisticated people come in? I was always the under the impression that a sterotypical jazz cat, was a herion addict that kept saying 'baby' in every sentence with a raspy voice. Now that's hardly sophisticated and another representation of the crap that is - sterotypes.
As for challenging each other, jazz musicians just want the very best out of each other in order to achieve truly great music. It may seem like they challenge in each other to you or your teacher, but in actual fact they're just communicating with one another and asking for more.
Yes, alright, Jazz is hard to swallow for some people, but that's because they're not used to that freedom and intensity it can posess and to be frank - I can understand that. I wouldn't expect anyone who's a hardcore rap and hip hop listener to immediatley understand and love John Coltrane or Miles Davis. Jazz has to be introduced slowly to people so they can digest and understand it's history - people are either too impatient or too lazy these days to do it and sterotypes like that don't help whatsoever.
To quote Frank Zappa, 'Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny.'
I think that's the case today and here especially.
Who created the rule that jazz music was for certain types of people? Jazz music, heck music, is for everyone to enjoy big or small; fat or thin; black or white, etc.
Jazz music is appreciated by others - not just musicians and its very much alive. Just because it isn't mainstream and played constantly on every radio station or on MTV does NOT mean its dead.
Also, where did this idea of sophisticated people come in? I was always the under the impression that a sterotypical jazz cat, was a herion addict that kept saying 'baby' in every sentence with a raspy voice. Now that's hardly sophisticated and another representation of the crap that is - sterotypes.
As for challenging each other, jazz musicians just want the very best out of each other in order to achieve truly great music. It may seem like they challenge in each other to you or your teacher, but in actual fact they're just communicating with one another and asking for more.
Yes, alright, Jazz is hard to swallow for some people, but that's because they're not used to that freedom and intensity it can posess and to be frank - I can understand that. I wouldn't expect anyone who's a hardcore rap and hip hop listener to immediatley understand and love John Coltrane or Miles Davis. Jazz has to be introduced slowly to people so they can digest and understand it's history - people are either too impatient or too lazy these days to do it and sterotypes like that don't help whatsoever.
To quote Frank Zappa, 'Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny.'
I think that's the case today and here especially.