Is jazz REALLY dead? Does jazz listeners have autism like our goose?

>>81912498
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.

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as a progressive medium, probably, but trios are still jamming til 5am in some parts of the world

Can anons recommend some casual jazz that is easy to get into

>>81912592
miles davis, john coltrane, the list could go on...

>>81912592
Bill evans

That is one ugly frog but goose is average

>>81912498
is the Jazz industry dead?
Is the jazz audience dead?
yes.

Is Jazz dead?
No way baby.

>>81912540
>Christiania is a squalid, trashy string of alleys with rag-and-bone men selling drugs, tie-dye and wretched food

t. haven't been to Christiania

It's a typical den of DUDE WEED types but otherwise more or less okay.

>>81913501
>but otherwise more or less okay.
Last time I was there was a couple of years ago and it was quite literally the most trashy place in Denmark I've seen so far.

>>81913548
>the most trashy place in Denmark I've seen so far

Considering Danes have the neat and tidy variant of autism, that's not saying much.

Quick, blues or jazz

why everyone forgot about this movie?

Why do people hate jazz as music genre

>>81913850
because its unlistenable garbage :^}

>>81913990
Kek shit taste anon

Plebs can't enjoy this kind of kinoart

>>81912592
Jazz is life
https://youtu.be/4D8YPDdsxYU

https://youtu.be/BVO_R8uvMhE

>>81913850
People hate country music too.
Then you got actual garbage like the pop, hip hop and other shit they put on the radio, and people for some reason don't want to commit suicide when listening to that.

>>81912498
>So...what do you do?

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>>81914386
keep telling yourself whatever helps you sleep at night

>>81914482
I play

>>81913443
Don't insult my frogfu!

>>81913850
The jazz that sounds like a bunch of heroin addicts just testing out their instruments with only a passing attempt to actually sync up is garbage.

>>81914444
nice quads
any given radio station seems to be 99% overplayed junk nowadays. its sad really

>>81914614
>le born in the wrong generation
It was always trash

>>81912592

Depends what your cup of tea is. I'm very picky with my sax and trumpet playing so I try to look for a jazz/funk which is harder to come by. Down to the Bone and Rick Braun are two of my favorites.

>>81913769

Blues for me. So many different guitar styles out there. A lot of it can eventually sound the same but I still love it.

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>>81914520
a symptom of the cancer that is jazz no doubt. how long have you been suffering this pain?

it's not dead so long as the white saviour is here to revitalise it

>>81913850

People hate the pretentiousness of it. Especially for freestyle Jazz.

>tfw people "liking" jazz as some kind of fashion statement

Absolutely disgusting.

>>81914727
Seb should've been played by a black actor.

>>81913850
Part of it is that most people have 4/4 beat and simple chord progressions hardwired into their brain from birth and anything that sounds too deviated from that initially will cause some sort of revulsion.

But also a lot of jazz is musical wankery made by cunts whose biggest concern isn't "I want ot make good music" but rather "I want to world to notice how '''''''good''''''' my playing is"

>>81912498
Best Jazz musicians in the world are in the US, but Jazz is only being produced in any actual quantities in Japan.

Its dead

>>81912592
Jazz has a huge variety of music styles. I like smooth jazz, motown, hip-hop, and whatever category Sade's music falls under. Fat Burger is a good one too.

>>81912540
Aint that a great metaphor for our society at large?

What a mediocre movie this was.

>>81915467
It was extremely over-hyped.

No one CAN really like jazz, right?

>>81915639
The drummer from CAN actually played jazz before he joined Can, you barbarian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBDpVb2qka8

>>81912498
I like smooth jazz which is like mix of jazz and melodic pop.

You have to see what's at the stake when musician play jazz, its intense and raw power containing incredible skills and nerves. Jazz is my jamm

>>81914386
thats some boring olive garden-tier shit my dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig2wAIbtqTk

Ryo fukui is great.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHrr3dp7zRQY&ved=0ahUKEwjyzOfht7jTAhXG7YMKHQ-EBpsQt9IBCI8BMBQ&usg=AFQjCNGwZzmB27tcNEEPoNimodiAHUouyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmDgfzpKw5w

tell me this isn't beautiful

tfw no one understands the beauty of jazz and prog

>>81916260
>til sb listens this kind of horseshit

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>>81914535
>>81914765
>can't into free jazz

is cowboy bebop jazz

>>81912592
Duke Ellington

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>>81916601
>He fell for the free jazz meme

>>81912498
>Is jazz REALLY dead?
No
>Does jazz listeners have autism like our goose?
Yes

>>81912498
Pretty much, Megatrop ripped him appart and Optimus implied he's gone

>>81912498
No, I can confirm that in at least New Orleans Jazz is life but its probably a big thing in a lot of cities since it harkens back to a time of sophisticated non-degenerate culture that is now implicitly white with some negros thrown in occasionally

>>81915269
What are you talking about?

>>81912592
Most jazz sucks imo. Kurt Weill and George Gershwin are the closest thing to jazz that I enjoy.

>>81912592
My mom had a small Jazz collection, I always dug Wayne Shorter. He's one of the greats that's still alive. It's nice background music as Jazz should be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvRkGglLe-U

He also does the sax in Steely Dan's Aja, sounds so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG2seugAgnU

>>81915141
Yeah, pretty much this. Also the infamous "four chords" of pop music all hack songwriters use cause of how safe they are