I have yet to meet someone authentic who claims to like contemporary jazz, particularly the atonal crap that usually takes the epithets of "modal" or "free" jazz. It seems like the only people who have ever expressed any enjoyment of this so-called music are either bland people who got all "B"s at a B-rate college and are desperately trying to accommodate bourgeois sensibilities and avoid anything with real character, or poseur types like the hipster trash infesting Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
A very strong distinction should be made between authentic "Jazz Age" jazz, which I frequently like and which seems to be generally enjoyed by many, and the more modern forms.
The reason I ask is because it is shown often in movies and television, but yet when I ask people here in NY if they like it no one interesting ever does (or at least they don't express any strong interest - some people are indifferent rather than overtly contemptuous like I am).
A very strong distinction should be made between authentic "Jazz Age" jazz, which I frequently like and which seems to be generally enjoyed by many, and the more modern forms.
The reason I ask is because it is shown often in movies and television, but yet when I ask people here in NY if they like it no one interesting ever does (or at least they don't express any strong interest - some people are indifferent rather than overtly contemptuous like I am).
Does anyone actually like contemporary/modal/free jazz?
18/03/2012 07:48:10 PM
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Its terrible. *NM*
18/03/2012 09:05:45 PM
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No idea?
19/03/2012 01:19:27 AM
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Here is an Ornette Coleman video described as "Free Jazz" from 1978
19/03/2012 04:41:47 AM
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There's very little atonal music at all that I enjoy. I can't think of any jazz examples. *NM*
19/03/2012 03:50:55 AM
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I suppose it's kinda cool to play in the background while looking at an artsy exhibition
19/03/2012 08:47:23 AM
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Pretty much my stance. Pleasant muzak, but not something I'd go to a concert for. *NM*
20/03/2012 07:04:37 AM
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