Urban75's lack of empathy for ordinary people who like jazz

[danny la rouge]

Stop saying “I don’t get it”, or “when does the tune start?”. Don’t you know that’s offensive to hep cats?

 

[maomao]

Half of it's lift music and the other half is tuneless drivel. Is that the kind of thing you were objecting to?

 

[Sue]

Nice.

(((danny la rouge)))

 

[danny la rouge]

Half of it's lift music and the other half is tuneless drivel. Is that the kind of thing you were objecting to?

Nice.

(((danny la rouge)))

See! This is the hate speech we have to endure!

 

[Yossarian]

I'm no jazzman but it's disappointing to see people on here arrogantly mocking all those people in our country for whom jazz is important, for whatever reason.

This is just a new version of the thing where classical music fans are dismissed as elitist snobs by people who have no idea what Classic FM listeners' lives are like and, indeed, don't actually care.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy spending this afternoon laughing at people you think are more sophisticated than you.

 

[platinumsage]

It's annoying. Only suitable as background music for scenes in movies that take place in jazz clubs.

 

[Sue]

See! This is the hate speech we have to endure!

 

[Sue]

Dp

 

[NoXion]

 

[BristolEcho]

Can you post some Jazz you like? I've never been convinced by it but probably because I've not tried.

 

[19sixtysix]

Stop saying “I don’t get it”, or “when does the tune start?”. Don’t you know that’s offensive to hep cats?

Coming soon near you Glasgow Jazz Festival

However I do get total condemnation of genres of music. I appalled a younger member of staff by describing rap and hip hop as chatting shit music.

 

[contadino]

The sub-genres just sound so much cooler than elsewhere on the musical spectrum. Jazz-funk, be-bop, big band, swing, etc..

 

[Sue]

I once had a truly appalling colleague* who played in a jazz band. More stand up and sit down and wave your hat about jazz than smoky cellar cool jazz I think but completely put me off.

*Apart from being a sexist shit, I once caught him making his coffee/tea round with water from the tap. I reckon so it would be so bad, he'd not have to make his round while still being in the round. What kind of monster does that?

 

[danny la rouge]

Can you post some Jazz you like? I've never been convinced by it but probably because I've not tried.

 

[nogojones]

I once had a truly appalling colleague* who played in a jazz band. More stand up and sit down and wave your hat about jazz than smoky cellar cool jazz I think but completely put me off.

*Apart from being a sexist shit, I once caught him making his coffee/tea round with water from the tap. I reckon so it would be so bad, he'd not have to make his round while still being in the round. What kind of monster does that?

This sort of monster

 

[Bus Honeygun]

In a way, jazz is both the old and new punk. The Nation of Ulysses understood that.

I actually pretend to like jazz more than I do (and I do genuinely like jazz), just because it seems to get under some people's skins.

 

[JimW]

They're only into for the mags really, the mucky fuckers.

 

[contadino]

Can you post some Jazz you like? I've never been convinced by it but probably because I've not tried.

which uses a Richard Strauss composition as a backdrop. Very early sampling...

 

[killer b]

Can you post some Jazz you like? I've never been convinced by it but probably because I've not tried.

Loads of great young jazz bands about atm, it's a good time to get into it 'cause it's best live: wonderful though Cotrane, Louis, Ella & Miles are, you've only got the records to go with - I reckon you should try recent albums by The Comet Is Coming, Black Monument Ensemble and Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society to start off with.

 

[krtek a houby]

 

[krtek a houby]

Fusion really irks the purists but come on, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham and Jan Hammer all in one band!

 

[contadino]

...and these guys did this whilst still looking razor sharp in suits...


This one's pretty accessible.

 

[killer b]

Very early sampling...

this is very silly - it's just a cover.

 

[krtek a houby]

And speaking of Billy Cobham

 

[wtfftw]

Probably a bit late to pick at your premise (sue me; I'm on holiday) but normal people don't like jazz.


ETA. Damnit you said ordinary.

 

[8ball]

I agree with the jazz adage that it's all about the notes they're not playing, and then sensibly take this to its logical conclusion.

 

[krtek a houby]

And then there's this extraordinary album

 

[Knotted]

My feeling (it certainly works for me) is that with jazz you need to go back to the beginning (or at very least the swing era) in order to understand a lot of it. If it's about breaking the rules or expanding the musical language then you need to have that reference to what is being expanded upon.

 

[Supine]

Nice

 

[Knotted]

My one recommendation for the beginner jazz listener. I was a "I don't like jazz" type for a long time. But this hit me like an emotional brick in the face.