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Do you also disparage audio equipment that you may not know a lot about?
D.D., you seem like a very angry man.Steve
Rob, if you want to perform Live in front of an audience, be ready to accept that audience with all the good and the bad. ...So simple. ...What was so hard to understand from my previous post?
As has already been acknowledged, classical music concerts, and especially opera, don't allow seating during the performance, nor do they allow flash photography. Why are only classical musicians accorded that privilege?
And what about the performer (and members of the audience too, for that matter) who would prefer that the live concert be about the music and performance, rather than about (the obnoxious part of) the audience? As has already been acknowledged, classical music concerts, and especially opera, don't allow seating during the performance, nor do they allow flash photography. Why are only classical musicians accorded that privilege?
Because Classical music is the real deal! ...Jazz music is a totally different art form, a free expression of the body, a dance music. ...That's why. Jazz music is addicting, and played by many drug addicts. It's a trance, a dance music of the brain & body (in & out). Yes, of course, some people might think differently, and I totally respect that. And I'm talking from the audience's perspective; and not necessarily of what's going on onstage. Classical Ballet have performing dancers onstage, but not in the audience.With Jazz everything goes; onstage and off stage. ...In general.* Classical music is a 'listening' experience to its deepest core.Jazz music is not only a listening experience but also a 'participating' (in & out out-of-the-body) experience. ...I love dancing through jazz music.And I've been at several jazz clubs in my lifetime. ...Same for classical music concert halls, operas, classical chamber music, ...That's my sincere take on this.
Hmm, I used to play jazz, and never took drugs. It also requires a great deal of technical expertise, as much as classical. There are specific mannerisms and expressions specific to jazz that separate it from other musical styles, one of these is swing. You don't know these, you aren't playing jazz.Your description can be read as demeaning to jazz musicians, though I hope you didn't intend it that way.Classical musicians for the most part cannot play jazz. Then again, they can't play funk, soul, salsa, Qawwali, or West African music either.Is someone trained in ballet more "the real deal" than Chinese acrobats, flamenco, modern dance?
That's your "sincere take on this"? You obviously know very little or next to nothing about jazz as it has evolved over the past 70 years or so. I'm sure Keith Jarrett, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, and just about every musician playing jazz today would take issue with your "sincere take" that jazz is how you describe it. And that comment about drug addicts is way over the top. There is no causal connection between jazz and substance abuse. As a musical art form, jazz has expanded into nearly infinite avenues of musical expression of which dance is only one. Some of us would argue that jazz overtook classical music as a creative and vital art form during the 20th century. I have been to many jazz concerts in clubs and concert halls and I know that your understanding of this (these) musical form(s) barely scratches the smallest corner of its surface.If you are interested in expanding your appreciation of jazz, I, and many other AC members, would be happy to provide you with lists of recordings and music. If you're not, then .....
I know some classical musicians who wish they could play jazz, but can only play compositions note for note that they've practiced literally thousands of times. They play those compositions beautifully and expertly, but admit to wishing they also had knowledge and experience in the art of improvisation....Steve
