It's called Free Jazz because nobody would buy it.

I would buy it

>>70205834
It's called Free Jazz bc its not in jail.

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"Well you're free to shut up about the genre I single handedly invented, anon" - (Herbie Hancock, 1977)

>>70205962
>trying to convert a good artist into a forced meme
holy shit kill yourself drake lewis

Jazz serves a cultural function in the music scene. It is a signifier for musical "adulthood." To embrace jazz is to don a kind of graduation cap, signifying a broadening of tastes outside "mere" rock music. This ostentatious display of "sophistication" is an insult, and I find the graduation cappers transparent and tedious. Certainly there must be interesting music one could call "jazz." There must be. I've never heard it, but I grant that it is out there somewhere.

Jazz has a non-musical parallel: Christiania, the "free" zone in Copenhagen. In Christiania, like in jazz, there is no law. People are left to their own inventions to create and act as they see fit. In Jazz, the musicians are allowed to improvise over and beside structural elements that may themselves be extemporaneous. Sounds good, doesn't it? Freedom -- sounds good.

The reality is much bleaker. Christiania is a squalid, trashy string of alleys with rag-and-bone men selling drugs, tie-dye and wretched food. Granted Total Freedom, and this is what they've chosen to do with it, sell hash and lentil soup? Jazz is similar. The results are so far beneath the conception that there is no English word for the dissappointment one feels when forced to confront it. Granted Total Freedom, you've chosen to play II V I and blow a goddamn trill on the saxophone? Only by willfully ignoring its failings can one pretend to appreciate it as an idiom and don the cap.

>>70206025
herbie isn't the meme, herbieanon is.

thats why people think its funny

>>70206025
Don't break the Drake

>Free jazz performance
>More than one take

>>70205962
Hancuck didn't invent shit though

>>70205962
herbie did not invent free jazz

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